"Philip Oakley" <philipoakley@xxxxxxx> writes: > Hi, 'Truncate' is real English, but it is not that common in normal usage. > > My dictionary suggests that it means 'cut off at the tip' such as a > truncated cone. However the thesaurus is far more relaxed about the > common idioms that truncate at the tail such as: clip, crop, cut > short, trim, abbreviate, curtail, etc. > > So perhaps "could not trim '%s'". Truncate is fine, as there is already another instance that barfs with "cannot truncate" upon an error from ftruncate(), and the patch merely matches the two error messages.
