HP-UX Reference (11i v1 05/09) - 2 System Calls (vol 5)

truncate( ) truncate( )

HP-UX EXTENSIONS

SYNOPSIS

int truncate(const char *path, size_t length);

int ftruncate(int fildes, size_t length);

ERRORS

If truncate() fails, errno is set to one of the following values:

[EACCES] MAC access is denied on the ﬁle.

[EDQUOT] The user’s disk quota block limit has been reached for this ﬁle system.

[EFAULT] path points outside the process’s allocated address space. The reliable detection of this

error is implementation dependent.

[EINVAL] length was greater than the maximum ﬁle size.

[ETXTBSY] The ﬁle is a pure procedure (shared text) ﬁle that is being executed.

ftruncate() fails, errno is set to one of the following values:

[EDQUOT] The user’s disk quota block limit has been reached for this ﬁle system.

AUTHOR

truncate() was developed by the University of California, Berkeley.