From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon Oct 9 11:19:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 358C437B66D for ; Mon, 9 Oct 2000 11:19:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA17247; Mon, 9 Oct 2000 14:18:59 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 14:18:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <200010091818.OAA17247@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Jim Pirzyk Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Fwd: Re: bin/21789: no mkfile command In-Reply-To: <200010091530.IAA09075@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <200010091530.IAA09075@freefall.freebsd.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org < said: > The command not only creates a file, but also creates it with a certain > size > 0. I have included the SunOS man page to see how it is used. mkfile(1) is not standardized in either SUSv2 or POSIX.1-1996; the POSIX draft 4 rationale mentions that it was considered for inclusion and rejected. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message