From owner-cvs-all Tue Mar 5 17:29:30 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from hex.databits.net (hex.csh.rit.edu [129.21.60.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 92FFC37B416 for ; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 17:29:22 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 80529 invoked by uid 1001); 6 Mar 2002 01:07:42 -0000 Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 20:07:42 -0500 From: Pete Fritchman To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Pete Fritchman , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/sysutils Makefile ports/sysutils/mkfile Makefile distinfo pkg-comment pkg-descr pkg-plist ports/sysutils/mkfile/files patch-Makefile Message-ID: <20020305200742.B80278@databits.net> References: <200203051742.g25Hghi15376@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020305164050.A74189@xor.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020305164050.A74189@xor.obsecurity.org>; from kris@obsecurity.org on Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 04:40:50PM -0800 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ++ 05/03/02 16:40 -0800 - Kris Kennaway: | > Log: | > Add mkfile 1.0, create files suitable for use as swap files. | | What can this do that truncate(1) cannot already do? | | Kris Hmm, well, I've never seen it before and nobody brought it up on -ports a while ago when I asked why this port was necessary. One advantage is that there is an identical command in Solaris, but I'm not sure how important that is... --pete -- Pete Fritchman [petef@(databits.net|freebsd.org|csh.rit.edu)] finger petef@databits.net for PGP key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message