Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 09:42:03 -0400 (EDT) From: James Howard <howardjp@glue.umd.edu> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: truncate(1) implementation details Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0007030940200.5251-100000@y.glue.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <30309.962630733@axl.ops.uunet.co.za>
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On Mon, 3 Jul 2000, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > Can you explain why it's silly in the context of truncate(1), which > _must_ take a size as an argument? It's obvious why it's silly for > head(1), which needn't be passed a number of lines as an argument. Then the size should merely be the first argument. For instance, it isn't chmod -0666 foo But instead, chmod 0666 foo And this keeps you from having to include the same hack in yet another program to make sure getopt() can handle it. Jamie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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