Re: Few issues for ThreadFile.

[Federico Montesino Pouzols]

        So it seems it is possible to add this method in a portable
manner. Is there interest?

On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 11:35:53PM +0100, Prochnow, Christian wrote:
> Am Freitag 06 Dezember 2002 03:49 schrieb Leonard Thornton:
> > Sorry, but no ftruncate in win32.....closest would be
> > "open(....O_TRUNC)..."
> >
> 
> This is not true. 
> It can be emulated with  SetFilePointer() and SetEndOfFile() functions of the 
> win32 API.
> 
> Greetings,
> Christian Prochnow
> 
> 
> >
> > Leonard Thornton
> > Intelis, Inc
> > address@hidden
> >
> > +1 770.825.0032 x 203
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden On
> > Behalf Of Skye Cove
> > Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 9:26 PM
> > To: address@hidden
> > Subject: Re: Few issues for ThreadFile.
> >
> > On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 14:01, David Sugar wrote:
> > > I am not sure how widely portable ftruncate is,
> >
> > For what it's worth:
> >
> > Aaccording to `man ftruncate` (on a Linux 2.4.18 system): "4.4BSD, SVr4
> > (these function calls first appeared in BSD  4.2). POSIX 1003.1?$B!>1996  
> > has
> > ftruncate. POSIX 1003.1?$B!>2001 also has truncate, as an XSI extension."
> >
> > I verified that it is also supported on FreeBSD 4.5, Solaris 8 and HP-UX 11
> > (though I didn't compile any tests).
> >
> > Does the win32 API offer anything similar?
> >
> > -sc
> >
> >
> >
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