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TRUNCATE(3P)               POSIX Programmer's Manual              TRUNCATE(3P)
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       Linux  manual page for details of Linux behavior), or the interface may
       not be implemented on Linux.
NAME
       truncate -- truncate a file to a specified length
SYNOPSIS
       #include <unistd.h>
       int truncate(const char *path, off_t length);
DESCRIPTION
       The truncate() function shall cause the regular file named by  path  to
       have a size which shall be equal to length bytes.
       If  the  file previously was larger than length, the extra data is dis-
       carded. If the file was previously shorter than  length,  its  size  is
       increased, and the extended area appears as if it were zero-filled.
       The  application shall ensure that the process has write permission for
       the file.
       If the request would cause the file size to exceed the soft  file  size
       limit  for  the  process, the request shall fail and the implementation
       shall generate the SIGXFSZ signal for the process.
       The truncate() function shall not modify the file offset for  any  open
       file descriptions associated with the file. Upon successful completion,
       if the file size is changed, truncate() shall mark for update the  last
       data  modification  and last file status change timestamps of the file,
       and the S_ISUID and S_ISGID bits of the file mode may be cleared.
RETURN VALUE
       Upon successful completion, truncate() shall return  0.  Otherwise,  -1
       shall be returned, and errno set to indicate the error.
ERRORS
       The truncate() function shall fail if:
       EINTR  A signal was caught during execution.
       EINVAL The length argument was less than 0.
       EFBIG or EINVAL
              The length argument was greater than the maximum file size.
       EIO    An  I/O  error  occurred while reading from or writing to a file
              system.
       EACCES A component of the path  prefix  denies  search  permission,  or
              write permission is denied on the file.
       EISDIR The named file is a directory.
       ELOOP  A loop exists in symbolic links encountered during resolution of
              the path argument.
       ENAMETOOLONG
              The  length  of  a  component  of  a  pathname  is  longer  than
              {NAME_MAX}.
       ENOENT A component of path does not name an existing file or path is an
              empty string.
       ENOTDIR
              A component of the path prefix names an existing  file  that  is
              neither  a  directory nor a symbolic link to a directory, or the
              path argument contains at least one  non-<slash>  character  and
              ends  with  one or more trailing <slash> characters and the last
              pathname component names an existing  file  that  is  neither  a
              directory nor a symbolic link to a directory.
       EROFS  The named file resides on a read-only file system.
       The truncate() function may fail if:
       ELOOP  More  than  {SYMLOOP_MAX} symbolic links were encountered during
              resolution of the path argument.
       ENAMETOOLONG
              The length of a pathname exceeds {PATH_MAX}, or pathname resolu-
              tion  of  a symbolic link produced an intermediate result with a
              length that exceeds {PATH_MAX}.
       The following sections are informative.
EXAMPLES
       None.
APPLICATION USAGE
       None.
RATIONALE
       None.
FUTURE DIRECTIONS
       None.
SEE ALSO
       open()
       The Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1-2008, <unistd.h>
COPYRIGHT
       Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in  electronic  form
       from IEEE Std 1003.1, 2013 Edition, Standard for Information Technology
       -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX),  The  Open  Group  Base
       Specifications Issue 7, Copyright (C) 2013 by the Institute of Electri-
       cal and Electronics Engineers,  Inc  and  The  Open  Group.   (This  is
       POSIX.1-2008  with  the  2013  Technical Corrigendum 1 applied.) In the
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