Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2000 14:37:53 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> To: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: truncate(1) implementation details (SUMMARY) Message-ID: <16614.962714273@axl.ops.uunet.co.za>
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I've worked on Alexander Langer's version of truncate(1) to get it to the point where it's a useful utility. I'll be submitting patches back to him shortly. Having had some time to reflect, however, I feel that this utility should not be incorporated into the FreeBSD base system. SUSv2 does not mandate this utility, in spite of the fact that the standard mandates things like link(1), unlink(1) and pathchk(1). I feel that this is a good indicator that this utility is not needed often enough to warrant its inclusion. Certainly, it is useful at times. However, I think that it is best left as a port in the sysutils category, for those rare occasions when a shell script's performance needs make the use of head(1)/rm(1) or dd(1) infeasible. Since shell scripts are not generally high-performance tools, I believe that excluding the truncate(1) utility from the base system would be of very little consequence. Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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