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| author | alex <alex@FreeBSD.org> | 1996-06-08 15:59:43 +0000 |
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| committer | alex <alex@FreeBSD.org> | 1996-06-08 15:59:43 +0000 |
| commit | cb6ab7f49330fefcb74bd6d9944bc4526e5fc148 (patch) | |
| tree | cac470e966db4b635d044e44a90a328d94a4773c /lib/libc/sys/truncate.2 | |
| parent | 597045971fd87a3ae1c6855f643f69fa286c5a86 (diff) | |
| download | FreeBSD-src-cb6ab7f49330fefcb74bd6d9944bc4526e5fc148.zip FreeBSD-src-cb6ab7f49330fefcb74bd6d9944bc4526e5fc148.tar.gz | |
Rephrase some things as suggested by Bruce.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/sys/truncate.2')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/sys/truncate.2 | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/truncate.2 b/lib/libc/sys/truncate.2 index b9c039a..0503535 100644 --- a/lib/libc/sys/truncate.2 +++ b/lib/libc/sys/truncate.2 @@ -52,11 +52,12 @@ or referenced by .Fa fd to be truncated or extended to .Fa length -bytes in size. If the file previously +bytes in size. If the file was larger than this size, the extra data is lost. If the file was smaller than this size, -extra zeros are appended. +it will be extended as if by writing bytes +with the value zero. With .Fn ftruncate , the file must be open for writing. |
