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and ftruncate(2) return EPERM. Note, that if the append-only flag is set even increasing size of the file is not permitted.
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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 December 9, 2006
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.Dt TRUNCATE 2
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm truncate ,
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.Nm ftruncate
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.Nd truncate or extend a file to a specified length
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.Sh LIBRARY
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.Lb libc
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.In unistd.h
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.Ft int
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.Fn truncate "const char *path" "off_t length"
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.Ft int
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.Fn ftruncate "int fd" "off_t length"
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Fn truncate
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system call
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causes the file named by
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.Fa path
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or referenced by
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.Fa fd
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to be truncated or extended to
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.Fa length
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bytes in size.
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If the file
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was larger than this size, the extra data
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is lost.
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If the file was smaller than this size,
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it will be extended as if by writing bytes
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with the value zero.
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With
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.Fn ftruncate ,
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the file must be open for writing.
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.Sh RETURN VALUES
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.Rv -std
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If the file to be modified is not a directory or
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a regular file, the
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.Fn truncate
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call has no effect and returns the value 0.
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.Sh ERRORS
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The
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.Fn truncate
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system call
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succeeds unless:
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.Bl -tag -width Er
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.It Bq Er ENOTDIR
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A component of the path prefix is not a directory.
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.It Bq Er ENAMETOOLONG
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A component of a pathname exceeded 255 characters,
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or an entire path name exceeded 1023 characters.
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.It Bq Er ENOENT
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The named file does not exist.
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.It Bq Er EACCES
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Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix.
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.It Bq Er EACCES
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The named file is not writable by the user.
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.It Bq Er ELOOP
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Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname.
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.It Bq Er EPERM
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The named file has its immutable or append-only flag set, see the
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.Xr chflags 2
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manual page for more information.
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.It Bq Er EISDIR
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The named file is a directory.
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.It Bq Er EROFS
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The named file resides on a read-only file system.
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.It Bq Er ETXTBSY
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The file is a pure procedure (shared text) file that is being executed.
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.It Bq Er EIO
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An I/O error occurred updating the inode.
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.It Bq Er EFAULT
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The
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.Fa path
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argument
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points outside the process's allocated address space.
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.El
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.Pp
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The
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.Fn ftruncate
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system call
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succeeds unless:
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.Bl -tag -width Er
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.It Bq Er EBADF
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The
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.Fa fd
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argument
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is not a valid descriptor.
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.It Bq Er EINVAL
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The
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.Fa fd
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argument
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references a socket, not a file.
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.It Bq Er EINVAL
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The
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.Fa fd
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descriptor
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is not open for writing.
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.El
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr chflags 2 ,
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.Xr open 2
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.Sh HISTORY
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The
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.Fn truncate
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system call appeared in
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.Bx 4.2 .
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.Sh BUGS
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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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.Fn truncate
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to extend a file is not portable.
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