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authoreadler <eadler@FreeBSD.org>2018-01-15 16:51:04 +0000
committereadler <eadler@FreeBSD.org>2018-01-15 16:51:04 +0000
commit910ab6e4febbbfbc3ca8c1dc6bb069709e51b3cf (patch)
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parentd822fa76a08747ec808511e644d07c2937937181 (diff)
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MFC r327099:
fopen.1: document truncation This documentation truncation similar to POSIX and glibc. PR: 202545
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/stdio/fopen.32
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/stdio/fopen.3 b/lib/libc/stdio/fopen.3
index 70dcb5a..77156a9 100644
--- a/lib/libc/stdio/fopen.3
+++ b/lib/libc/stdio/fopen.3
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ Fail if the file does not exist.
.It Dq Li w
Open for writing.
The stream is positioned at the beginning of the file.
-Create the file if it does not exist.
+Truncate the file to zero length if it exists or create the file if it does not exist.
.It Dq Li a
Open for writing.
The stream is positioned at the end of the file.
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