9.1093 truncate

POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/truncate.html

Gnulib module: truncate

Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:

• This function is missing on some platforms: mingw, MSVC 9.
• On platforms where off_t is a 32-bit type, this function is not applicable to arbitrary lengths for files larger than 2 GB. The fix is to use the AC_SYS_LARGEFILE macro.

Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: