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Date:      Tue, 30 May 2006 18:16:32 +0200
From:      phoemix@harmless.hu (Gergely CZUCZY)
To:        Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: truncate tool - must be root?
Message-ID:  <20060530161632.GA27889@marvin.harmless.hu>
In-Reply-To: <447C6EC9.6070806@madole.net>
References:  <447C6BCF.50908@centtech.com> <447C6EC9.6070806@madole.net>

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On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 12:11:53PM -0400, David S. Madole wrote:
> Eric Anderson wrote:
> >Is it expected that truncate(8) must be used by a superuser?  If so,=20
> >then the man page should probably mention it.  If not, then it's=20
> >broken :)
>=20
> That's a pretty weak attempt at a bug report, and a wrong one, too:
>=20
> $ uname -m -r -s
> FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE i386
> $ id
> uid=3D2028(madole) gid=3D2000(users) groups=3D2000(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$
also works for me on 6-RELEASE-p7

Bye,

Gergely Czuczy
mailto: gergely.czuczy@harmless.hu
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Weenies test. Geniuses solve problems that arise.

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