Re: [Vala] [PATCH 2/2] vapi/posix.vapi: Introduce ftruncate() and truncate().

[Julian Andres Klode <jak jak-linux org>]

On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 01:42:33PM +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Julian Andres Klode <jak jak-linux org>
> ---
>  vapi/posix.vapi |    5 +++++
>  1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/vapi/posix.vapi b/vapi/posix.vapi
> index cfc9bb3..0c4c0f8 100644
> --- a/vapi/posix.vapi
> +++ b/vapi/posix.vapi
> @@ -1576,6 +1576,11 @@ namespace Posix {
>       [CCode (cheader_filename = "unistd.h")]
>       public int sync ();
>  
> +     [CCode (cheader_filename = "unistd.h")]
> +     public int ftruncate(int fd, off_t length);
> +     [CCode (cheader_filename = "unistd.h")]
> +     public int truncate(const char *path, off_t length);
> +
>       [SimpleType]
>       [CCode (cname = "cc_t", cheader_filename = "termios.h")]
>       [IntegerType (rank = 3, min = 0, max = 255)]
> -- 
> 1.6.3.3

There has been no answer to my 2 patches yet, so I ask again. Having
mmap() and file truncation support is kind of needed for maintaining
a binary cache on the disk. And writing a package manager[1] without
such a cache would be silly.

[1] http://git.debian.org/?p=users/jak/apt2.git
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Julian Andres Klode  - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member

See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/.