vmtruncate9
Unmap mappings “freed” by truncate syscall
Usage
int vmtruncate(struct inode * inode, loff_t newsize);
Arguments
inode
inode of the file used
newsize
file offset to start truncating
Overview
This function is deprecated and truncate_setsize or truncate_pagecache should be used instead, together with filesystem specific block truncation.
Releases
4 releases since Debian 4.0 (Etch); the text changed 3 times.