Package: manpages-dev
Version: 2.28-1
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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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