PD ftruncate needed

[T. William Wells]

In article <2132 at calypso.oakhill.UUCP> edj at oakhill.UUCP (Eric Jones) writes:
: I am currently porting a C program from a BSD to a System V based
: operating system. The program calls the BSD function "ftruncate",
: which does not exist under System V.

You lose. There is no way to do this in SysV 3.0 and earlier. Xenix,
I think, has a way, and I've heard that later versions of SysV have a
way. However, if you want portability, don't try to truncate a file
to other than length zero.

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