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Package: manpages-dev
Version: 2.28-1
Severity: normal


The man page for ftruncate(2) says:

     If the file previously was shorter, it is extended,

However this is not always true.  The glibc documentation says:
     
     The POSIX standard leaves it implementation defined what happens
     if the specified new LENGTH of the file is bigger than the
     original size.  The `ftruncate' function might simply leave the
     file alone and do nothing

Empirical evidence shows that Linux returns EPERM and leaves the file
unchanged when trying to extend files on a vfat filesystem.

Paul

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