file truncate

[Brian T. Rice]

While this is true, we will have to venture beyond ANSI C eventually, 
and right now we have no configuration which allows for this. The squeak 
VM source setup is a bit too cumbersome, but I'll develop one that works 
for us. The longer we delay that, the longer we'll have to do without 
actual features.

Lee Salzman wrote:

> I would prefer this be done a little differently. ftruncate() is a part
> of the unix standard, but is not ANSI C. The openNew: primitive in fact
> already truncates files by using the fopen() mode "w+b", so no separate
> truncate primitive is necessary.
> 
> Lee
> 
> On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 05:40:41PM +0200, Lendvai Attila wrote:
> 
>>hi!
>>
>>this is a file truncate patch + some bugfixes.
>>
>>a bit distracting, maybe we should forget it until the vm bootstrap
>>works.
>>
>>ah, and of course I couldn't test it. the reason I made it is that the
>>generators are appending/leaving garbage at the end of the files...
>>
>>and currently the vm generation only works if there is a vm.c/h.
>>therefore there's a withNewNamed:do: in the patch, too.
>>
>>bye,
>>
>>- 101
>>
> 
> 

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