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| author | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 19:55:15 -0400 |
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| committer | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 19:55:15 -0400 |
| commit | 253e67c8b3a72b3a4757fdbc5845297628db0a4a (patch) | |
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diff --git a/static/netbsd/man2/truncate.2 b/static/netbsd/man2/truncate.2 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..5a7fc891 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/netbsd/man2/truncate.2 @@ -0,0 +1,154 @@ +.\" $NetBSD: truncate.2,v 1.31 2017/05/14 12:30:37 wiz Exp $ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1991, 1993 +.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors +.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software +.\" without specific prior written permission. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" @(#)truncate.2 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93 +.\" +.Dd July 23, 2014 +.Dt TRUNCATE 2 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm truncate , +.Nm ftruncate +.Nd truncate a file to a specified length +.Sh LIBRARY +.Lb libc +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.In unistd.h +.Ft int +.Fn truncate "const char *path" "off_t length" +.Ft int +.Fn ftruncate "int fd" "off_t length" +.Sh DESCRIPTION +.Fn truncate +causes the file named by +.Fa path +or referenced by +.Fa fd +to have a size of +.Fa length +bytes. +If the file previously was larger than this size, the extra data is discarded. +If it was previously shorter than +.Fa length , +its size is increased to the specified value and +the extended area appears as if it were zero-filled. +.Pp +With +.Fn ftruncate , +the file must be open for writing; for +.Fn truncate , +the process must have write permissions for the file. +.Sh RETURN VALUES +A value of 0 is returned if the call succeeds. +If the call fails a \-1 is returned, and the global variable +.Va errno +specifies the error. +.Sh ERRORS +Error return codes common to +.Fn truncate +and +.Fn ftruncate +are: +.Bl -tag -width Er +.It Bq Er EINVAL +The +.Fa length +argument was less than 0. +.It Bq Er EIO +An I/O error occurred updating the inode. +.It Bq Er EISDIR +The named file is a directory. +.It Bq Er ENOSPC +There was no space in the file system to complete the operation. +.It Bq Er EROFS +The named file resides on a read-only file system. +.It Bq Er ETXTBSY +The file is a pure procedure (shared text) file that is being executed. +.El +.Pp +Error codes specific to +.Fn truncate +are: +.Bl -tag -width Er +.It Bq Er EACCES +Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix, or +the named file is not writable by the user. +.It Bq Er EFAULT +.Fa path +points outside the process's allocated address space. +.It Bq Er ELOOP +Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname. +.It Bq Er ENAMETOOLONG +A component of a pathname exceeded +.Brq Dv NAME_MAX +characters, or an entire path name exceeded +.Brq Dv PATH_MAX +characters. +.It Bq Er ENOENT +The named file does not exist. +.It Bq Er ENOTDIR +A component of the path prefix is not a directory. +.El +.Pp +Error codes specific to +.Fn ftruncate +are: +.Bl -tag -width Er +.It Bq Er EBADF +The +.Fa fd +is not a valid descriptor. +.It Bq Er EINVAL +The +.Fa fd +references a socket, not a file, or +the +.Fa fd +is not open for writing. +.El +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr fdiscard 2 , +.Xr open 2 +.Sh STANDARDS +Use of +.Fn truncate +to extend a file is an +.St -p1003.1-2004 +extension, and is thus not portable. +Files can be extended in a portable way seeking (using +.Xr lseek 2 ) +to the required size and writing a single character with +.Xr write 2 . +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Fn truncate +and +.Fn ftruncate +function calls appeared in +.Bx 4.2 . |
