/* ======================================================================== * Copyright 1988-2006 University of Washington * * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. * You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * * ======================================================================== */ /* * Program: Truncate a file * * Author: Mark Crispin * Networks and Distributed Computing * Computing & Communications * University of Washington * Administration Building, AG-44 * Seattle, WA 98195 * Internet: MRC@CAC.Washington.EDU * * Date: 30 June 1994 * Last Edited: 30 August 2006 */ /* Emulator for ftruncate() call * Accepts: file descriptor * length * Returns: 0 if success, -1 if failure */ int ftruncate (int fd,off_t length) { struct flock fb; fb.l_whence = 0; fb.l_len = 0; fb.l_start = length; fb.l_type = F_WRLCK; /* write lock on file space */ return fcntl (fd,F_FREESP,&fb); }