Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 01:29:17 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Cc: James Howard <howardjp@glue.umd.edu>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: truncate(1) implementation details Message-ID: <396756DD.2235FC7C@newsguy.com> References: <30005.962629536@axl.ops.uunet.co.za>
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Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > On Mon, 03 Jul 2000 09:01:20 -0400, James Howard wrote: > > > It would make sense to have it follow the semantics of the system call and > > then add a -c to create if nonexistent as Langer suggested. > > I'm convinced, but it introduces a problem. Given that it looks like > we'll allow '+' or '-' to be prepended to the size argument to allow > size changes rather than absolute sizes, what does this mean: > > truncate -c -1024 nonexistant_file Means a syntax error. truncate -c -- -1024 nonexistant_file Though, really, what you posted is non-ambiguous, and easy to parse. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@the.great.underground.bsdconpiracy.org <jkh> _DES: The Book of Bruce has only one sentence in it, and it says "the actual directives of my cult are left as an exercise for the reader. Good luck." <EE> jkh: does it really include the 'good luck' part? <jkh> EE: OK, I made that part up. <jkh> EE: I figured it should sound a bit more cheery than how Bruce initially dictated it to me. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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