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diff --git a/man2/truncate.2 b/man2/truncate.2 index 8a00ec3ffb..703f598b3d 100644 --- a/man2/truncate.2 +++ b/man2/truncate.2 @@ -176,25 +176,7 @@ POSIX permits, and portable applications should handle, either error for this case. (Linux produces .BR EINVAL .) -.SH STANDARDS -POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008, -4.4BSD, SVr4 (these calls first appeared in 4.2BSD). -.\" POSIX.1-1996 has -.\" .BR ftruncate (). -.\" POSIX.1-2001 also has -.\" .BR truncate (), -.\" as an XSI extension. -.\" .LP -.\" SVr4 documents additional -.\" .BR truncate () -.\" error conditions EMFILE, EMULTIHP, ENFILE, ENOLINK. SVr4 documents for -.\" .BR ftruncate () -.\" an additional EAGAIN error condition. -.SH NOTES -.BR ftruncate () -can also be used to set the size of a POSIX shared memory object; see -.BR shm_open (3). -.PP +.SH VERSIONS The details in DESCRIPTION are for XSI-compliant systems. For non-XSI-compliant systems, the POSIX standard allows two behaviors for @@ -216,6 +198,27 @@ to be used to extend a file beyond its current length: a notable example on Linux is VFAT. .\" At the very least: OSF/1, Solaris 7, and FreeBSD conform, mtk, Jan 2002 .PP +On some 32-bit architectures, +the calling signature for these system calls differ, +for the reasons described in +.BR syscall (2). +.SH STANDARDS +POSIX.1-2008. +.SH HISTORY +POSIX.1-2001, +4.4BSD, SVr4 (first appeared in 4.2BSD). +.\" POSIX.1-1996 has +.\" .BR ftruncate (). +.\" POSIX.1-2001 also has +.\" .BR truncate (), +.\" as an XSI extension. +.\" .LP +.\" SVr4 documents additional +.\" .BR truncate () +.\" error conditions EMFILE, EMULTIHP, ENFILE, ENOLINK. SVr4 documents for +.\" .BR ftruncate () +.\" an additional EAGAIN error condition. +.PP The original Linux .BR truncate () and @@ -229,11 +232,10 @@ system calls that handle large files. However, these details can be ignored by applications using glibc, whose wrapper functions transparently employ the more recent system calls where they are available. -.PP -On some 32-bit architectures, -the calling signature for these system calls differ, -for the reasons described in -.BR syscall (2). +.SH NOTES +.BR ftruncate () +can also be used to set the size of a POSIX shared memory object; see +.BR shm_open (3). .SH BUGS A header file bug in glibc 2.12 meant that the minimum value of .\" http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12037 |