Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 11:22:34 -0700 From: Jim Pirzyk <Jim.Pirzyk@disney.com> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: bin/21789: no mkfile command Message-ID: <00100911255504.00437@snoopy.fan.fa.disney.com> In-Reply-To: <200010091818.OAA17247@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> References: <200010091530.IAA09075@freefall.freebsd.org> <200010091818.OAA17247@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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On Mon, 09 Oct 2000, Garrett Wollman wrote:
> <<On Mon, 9 Oct 2000 08:30:05 -0700 (PDT), Jim Pirzyk <Jim.Pirzyk@disney.com> 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.
yes it is not a codified standard but a de-facto one. SGI, Apple (OS
X) & Sun all have it (Cray, Dec/OSF1/Linux do not).
- JimP
>
> -GAWollman
>
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