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Various updates to the ftruncate(2) documentation:

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Various updates to the ftruncate(2) documentation:

  • Note that ftruncate(2) can operate on shared memory objects and cross reference shm_open(2).
  • Note that ftruncate(2) does not change the file position pointer (aka seek pointer) of the file descriptor.
  • ftruncate(2) will fail with EINVAL for all sorts of other fd types than just sockets, so instead note that it fails for all but regular files and shared memory objects.
  • Note that ftruncate(2) also appeared in 4.2BSD along with truncate(2). (Or at least the manpage for both appeared in 4.2, I did not check the kernel code itself to see if either predated 4.2.)

PR: 199472 (2)
Submitted by: andrew@ugh.net.au (2)
MFC after: 1 week

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rS282416: Partially revert r255486, the first argument to socketpair() is a socket
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