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
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.\" @(#)truncate.2 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.\"
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.Dd May 4, 2015
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.Dd January 24, 2020
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.Dt TRUNCATE 2
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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@ -160,6 +160,9 @@ system calls appeared in
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These calls should be generalized to allow ranges
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of bytes in a file to be discarded.
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.Pp
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Use of
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Historically, the use of
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.Fn truncate
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to extend a file is not portable.
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or
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.Fn ftruncate
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to extend a file was not portable, but this behavior became required in
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.St -p1003.1-2008 .
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