Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 12:11:53 -0400 From: "David S. Madole" <david@madole.net> To: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: truncate tool - must be root? Message-ID: <447C6EC9.6070806@madole.net> In-Reply-To: <447C6BCF.50908@centtech.com> References: <447C6BCF.50908@centtech.com>
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Eric Anderson wrote: > Is it expected that truncate(8) must be used by a superuser? If so, > then the man page should probably mention it. If not, then it's > broken :) That's a pretty weak attempt at a bug report, and a wrong one, too: $ uname -m -r -s FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE i386 $ id uid=2028(madole) gid=2000(users) groups=2000(users) $ echo "this is a test" > test $ ls -l test -rw-r----- 1 madole httpd 15 May 30 12:06 test $ truncate -s 7 test $ ls -l test -rw-r----- 1 madole httpd 7 May 30 12:06 test $ cat test this is$ Want to try again, giving any sort of interesting details you can, like version you tested on or a reproducible test case? David
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