From kfm-devel  Fri Jul 23 13:09:03 1999
From: Waldo Bastian <bastian () ens ! ascom ! ch>
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 13:09:03 +0000
To: kfm-devel
Subject: Re: Kio_file & Rollback
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kfm-devel&m=93273796029332

Matt Koss wrote:
> 
> I want to implement rollback in kio_file.
> This means, that when the transfer is interrupted, slave will take some bytes
> from the end of the file and put them away.
> Later, when resumed, this will make sure that there is not any trailing garbage.
> 
> But what's the easiest thing to achieve it ?
> 
> Is there some simple method for cutting some data from the end of the local
> file ?

Yes. truncate() is your friend. Not sure if it is defined by POSIX. 
See your local man page.

Cheers,
Waldo
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