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Author pitrou
Recipients mboquien, neologix, pitrou, python-dev, sbt, serhiy.storchaka
Date 2015-04-14.20:58:22
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Actually, recent POSIX states unconditionally that:

« If the file previously was smaller than this size, ftruncate() shall increase the size of the file. If the file size is increased, the extended area shall appear as if it were zero-filled. »

(from http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/ftruncate.html)
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2015-04-14 20:58:22pitrousetrecipients: + pitrou, neologix, python-dev, sbt, serhiy.storchaka, mboquien
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