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Man Page: open_trunc

Operating Environment: debian

Section: 3

open_trunc(3)						     Library Functions Manual						     open_trunc(3)

NAME
open_trunc - open a file for writing
SYNTAX
#include <open.h> int open_trunc(const char *filename);
DESCRIPTION
open_trunc opens the file filename for write-only use and returns the file handle. If the file exists, it will be truncated to zero bytes length. If it does not exist, it will be created with mode 0644. If there was an error opening or creating the file, open_trunc returns -1 and sets errno accordingly.
SEE ALSO
open(2) open_trunc(3)
Related Man Pages
fopen(3) - minix
fdopen(3s) - bsd
rfio_open(3) - debian
flopen(3) - freebsd
open(2) - plan9
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