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Re: Rsync and incremental updates on top of Original CDs



Previously J.A. Bezemer wrote:
> Ah, indeed! I appear to have a manpage for it, but it isn't mentioned in the
> glibc documentation where I searched initially. But why did they call it
> _f_truncate when in fact it does _not_ use a FILE* stream?!

The kernel knows not about FILE*. Compare it with systemcalls like
fstat, fsync, fdatasync, etc.

Wichert. 

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