Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 12:10:25 -0400 (EDT) From: James Howard <howardjp@glue.umd.edu> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Cc: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: truncate(1) implementation details Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0007031210090.13831-100000@y.glue.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <32476.962635052@axl.ops.uunet.co.za>
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On Mon, 3 Jul 2000, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > So we've got: > > truncate [-cv] [+|-]size file [...] > -c Create files as necessary > -v Warn about attempts to truncate below zero bytes > > where + and - turn the size argument into a delta to be applied, rather > than an absolute size. > > Any objections to this interface? Looks good :) Jamie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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