From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Jul 3 6: 1:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from po4.glue.umd.edu (po4.glue.umd.edu [128.8.10.124]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29BC337B677 for ; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 06:01:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from howardjp@glue.umd.edu) Received: from y.glue.umd.edu (root@y.glue.umd.edu [128.8.10.68]) by po4.glue.umd.edu (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e63D1LP12863; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 09:01:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: from y.glue.umd.edu (sendmail@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by y.glue.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id JAA03844; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 09:01:21 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (howardjp@localhost) by y.glue.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA03840; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 09:01:21 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: y.glue.umd.edu: howardjp owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 09:01:20 -0400 (EDT) From: James Howard To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: truncate(1) implementation details In-Reply-To: <904.962613305@axl.ops.uunet.co.za> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 3 Jul 2000, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > below. The issue I'd like feedback on is whether or not truncate(1) > should create files given on the command-line when those files do not > exist at the time of invocation. 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. J~ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message