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Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 20:52:36 -0400
From: Russ Cox <russcox@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] how to truncate a file?
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ape's ftruncate predates 9P2000.  on fossil you can use

int
ftruncate(int fd, vlong length)
{
    Dir d;
    nulldir(&d);
    d.length = length;
    return dirfwstat(fd, &d);
}

russ