From: "Pavlos" <trash24379 AT usa DOT net>
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Subject: ftruncate
Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 07:17:35 +0300
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I'm using ftruncate() to truncate the size of a file.
It seems that ftruncate will work only if the file pointer is before the
position that I'm going to truncate from.
Is this true or am I missing something?

for example if i do fseek to 1000, SEEK_SET and then ftruncate 500, it does
nothing.

I do close the file after ftruncate.

Pavlos