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 -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-w64 Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages manpages-dev depends on: ii manpages 2.28-1 Manual pages about using a GNU/Lin manpages-dev recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]