From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Jul 3 6:40:24 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 AD8BE37B680 for ; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 06:40:14 -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 e63De6P13545; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 09:40:06 -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 JAA05502; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 09:40:06 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (howardjp@localhost) by y.glue.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA05498; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 09:40:06 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: y.glue.umd.edu: howardjp owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 09:40:06 -0400 (EDT) From: James Howard To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: truncate(1) implementation details In-Reply-To: <30275.962630649@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: > Good point, this is a problem, but it has nothing to do with -c. Do you > agree that truncation that would reduce the number of bytes allocated to > a file below zero should silently set the file size to zero? Yes. Maybe a -v to tell us what is happening. Wow, adding options right and left. Of course, if this were done at MIT, we'd have to make sure it could read mail. > Block dewhat? :-) DOH! I forgot those were gone. > I would have expected truncate(2) to fail with ENOTSUPP on devices, but > that's not what the manual page says. Try it on /dev/zero for kicks and see what happens. Jamie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message