On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 12:05:23PM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Wednesday, 31 May 2006 at 13:15:29 +0000, Maxim Konovalov wrote: > > maxim 2006-05-31 13:15:29 UTC > > > > FreeBSD src repository > > > > Modified files: > > sys/ufs/ufs ufs_vnops.c > > Log: > > o According to POSIX, the result of ftruncate(2) is unspecified > > for file types other than VREG, VDIR and shared memory objects. > > We already handle VREG, VLNK and VDIR cases. Silently ignore > > > > Revision Changes Path > > 1.276 +22 -4 src/sys/ufs/ufs/ufs_vnops.c > > Is this worth a man page update?
Undoubtedly. Does the attached look like enough? I'm not sure if we
want to add a STANDARDS section for this when it's valid behaviour.
Ceri
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That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all.
-- Moliere
Index: src/lib/libc/sys/truncate.2 =================================================================== RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/lib/libc/sys/truncate.2,v retrieving revision 1.17 diff -u -r1.17 truncate.2 --- src/lib/libc/sys/truncate.2 20 Jan 2005 09:17:05 -0000 1.17 +++ src/lib/libc/sys/truncate.2 1 Jun 2006 09:47:19 -0000 @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ .\" @(#)truncate.2 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93 .\" $FreeBSD: src/lib/libc/sys/truncate.2,v 1.17 2005/01/20 09:17:05 ru Exp $ .\" -.Dd June 4, 1993 +.Dd June 1, 2006 .Dt TRUNCATE 2 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -69,6 +69,10 @@ the file must be open for writing. .Sh RETURN VALUES .Rv -std +If the file to be modified is not a directory or +a regular file, the +.Fn truncate +call will return the value 0. .Sh ERRORS The .Fn truncate
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