http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/truncate.2.html Quoting: "EFAULT Path points outside the process's allocated address space" Not a major.. but should "Path" be lower-case, as it is a param? e.g. as "path" Regards, Jonny -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html