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From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org>
To: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com>
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Subject: Re: truncate tool - must be root?
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On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 10:59:11AM -0500, 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 broken :)
>=20
If you speak about truncate(1), it works here under non-root:

$ uname -sr
FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT
$ dd if=3D/dev/zero of=3Dfoo bs=3D64k count=3D10
10+0 records in
10+0 records out
655360 bytes transferred in 0.002590 secs (253040511 bytes/sec)
$ id -u
1001
$ truncate -s 0 foo
$ ls -l foo
-rw-------  1 ru  ru  0 May 30 19:21 foo
$=20

--=20
Ruslan Ermilov
ru@FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer

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