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From: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
To: Charles Manning <manningc2@actrix.gen.nz>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: What calls setattr?
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 01:57:33 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031111015733.GH7665@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031111014458.1F5D84855@blood.actrix.co.nz>

On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 02:51:30PM +1300, Charles Manning wrote:
> I'm trying to test a change to setattr in YAFFS. In particular, I'm trying to 
> test the use of ATTR_SIZE when the size of the file is reduced 
> 
> I can't find the process-space system call that causes this to be called.(eg. 
> file is 2kB and I want to cut it back to 1kB).
> 
> Help me plz.

man truncate

(plus a bunch of related syscalls, plus truncation-to-zero when you do
open() with O_TRUNC, plus nfsd handling corresponding requests...)

      reply	other threads:[~2003-11-11  1:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-31 13:20 [PATCH] Intermezzo should call vfs_permission Matthew Wilcox
2003-11-11  1:51 ` What calls setattr? Charles Manning
2003-11-11  1:57   ` viro [this message]

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