From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Jul 3 6:49: 8 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 EA54837C28D for ; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 06:48:56 -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 e63Dmm013707; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 09:48:49 -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 JAA05741; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 09:48:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (howardjp@localhost) by y.glue.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA05737; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 09:48:48 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: y.glue.umd.edu: howardjp owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 09:48:48 -0400 (EDT) From: James Howard To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: truncate(1) implementation details In-Reply-To: <30802.962631928@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: > truncate -c -1024 nonexistant_file > > That means lop off 1024 bytes of the file, creating it if it doesn't > exist. I used that as an example, but I see now that it was a bad one. > > The tool won't introduce the size with an option. It'll be a required > argument. You agree that this is "normal"? Okay, yes. I misread it previously. Jamie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message