Re: [MiNT] ftruncate (was: Re: Coreutils)

[Mark Duckworth <mduckworth@atari-source.com>]

On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 05:08, Standa Opichal wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Did you try this on the hostfs or on the ext2fs? The HOSTFS filesystem 
> doesn't implement this so far. I'm working on it however. Here is the 
> mintlib implementation:
> 
> int
> __ftruncate (int fd, off_t length)
> {
>          long r;
> 
>          r = Fcntl (fd, &length, FTRUNCATE);
>          if (r < 0) {
>                  __set_errno (-r);
>                  return -1;
>          }
>          return 0;
> }
> 
> It would be good to have some replacement for the case when the 
> filesystem doesn't support this in mintlib.
> 
> best regards
> 
> STan
> 

Stan,

I tried this on Ext2.  I do most package building on my falcon.

Thanks,
Mark