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<<On Thu, 8 Jul 2004 16:04:40 +1000 (EST), Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> said:

> This doesn't apply to FreeBSD.  Truncation is still useful (and used) for
> old non-POSIX file systems like msdosfs:

If msdosfs is mounted, then the system does not conform to POSIX.
Since UFS does have this behavior, this is not a problem.

-GAWollman