From 38d68c5332a52193f6eddf74862cfe8deeb8fc8a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: maxim <maxim@FreeBSD.org>
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 14:20:43 +0000
Subject: o Document the fact truncate(2) has no effect for !VDIR or !VREG
 files.

Submitted by:	ceri
---
 lib/libc/sys/truncate.2 | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'lib')

diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/truncate.2 b/lib/libc/sys/truncate.2
index 08cc947..29f04b2 100644
--- a/lib/libc/sys/truncate.2
+++ b/lib/libc/sys/truncate.2
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
 .\"     @(#)truncate.2	8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
 .\" $FreeBSD$
 .\"
-.Dd June 4, 1993
+.Dd June 1, 2006
 .Dt TRUNCATE 2
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -69,6 +69,10 @@ With
 the file must be open for writing.
 .Sh RETURN VALUES
 .Rv -std
+If the file to be modified is not a directory or
+a regular file, the
+.Fn truncate
+call has no effect and returns the value 0.
 .Sh ERRORS
 The
 .Fn truncate
-- 
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