Win2kSP4+patches, cygwin1.dll 1.5.11, findutils 4.1.7-4 Test case below.
$ cat >truncate.c <<EOF #include <unistd.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <errno.h> int main(int argc, char **argv) { off_t size; char *endptr = argv[2]; if (argc != 3) { fprintf(stderr, "usage: truncate path size\n"); exit(1); } errno = 0; size = strtoull(argv[2], &endptr, 10); if (!endptr || endptr == argv[2] || *endptr || size < 0 || (size == 0 && errno)) { fprintf(stderr, "truncate: invalid size\n"); exit(1); } printf("truncating %s to %lld bytes\n", argv[1], size); if (truncate(argv[1], size)) { int saveerr = errno; perror("truncate"); fprintf(stderr, "errno was %d\n", saveerr); exit(1); } exit(0); } EOF $ g++ truncate.c -o truncate.exe $ touch aaa $ ./truncate.exe aaa 2000000000 truncating aaa to 2000000000 bytes $ ls -l aaa -rw-r--r-- 1 sc0rp None 2000000000 Dec 6 10:54 aaa $ find ./aaa -printf "%10s %p\n" 2000000000 ./aaa $ ./truncate.exe aaa 3000000000 truncating aaa to 3000000000 bytes $ ls -l aaa -rw-r--r-- 1 sc0rp None 3000000000 Dec 6 10:54 aaa $ find ./aaa -printf "%10s %p\n" 18446744072414584320 ./aaa $ ./truncate.exe aaa 4700000000 truncating aaa to 4700000000 bytes $ ls -l aaa -rw-r--r-- 1 sc0rp None 4700000000 Dec 6 10:54 aaa $ find ./aaa -printf "%10s %p\n" 405032704 ./aaa -- Jacek. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/