Author: vangyzen Date: Thu Feb 20 23:47:09 2020 New Revision: 358186 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/358186
Log: truncate(2): extending the file is required by POSIX 2008 Update the man page to mention that extending a file with truncate(2) is required by POSIX as of 2008. Reviewed by: bcr MFC after: 2 weeks Sponsored by: Dell EMC Isilon Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D23354 Modified: head/lib/libc/sys/truncate.2 Modified: head/lib/libc/sys/truncate.2 ============================================================================== --- head/lib/libc/sys/truncate.2 Thu Feb 20 21:52:36 2020 (r358185) +++ head/lib/libc/sys/truncate.2 Thu Feb 20 23:47:09 2020 (r358186) @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ .\" @(#)truncate.2 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93 .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd May 4, 2015 +.Dd January 24, 2020 .Dt TRUNCATE 2 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -160,6 +160,9 @@ system calls appeared in These calls should be generalized to allow ranges of bytes in a file to be discarded. .Pp -Use of +Historically, the use of .Fn truncate -to extend a file is not portable. +or +.Fn ftruncate +to extend a file was not portable, but this behavior became required in +.St -p1003.1-2008 . _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
