From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Jul 3 11:29:18 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 60DFD37B8AF for ; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 11:29:16 -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 e63ISv519816; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 14:28:58 -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 OAA28772; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 14:28:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (howardjp@localhost) by y.glue.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA28766; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 14:28:56 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: y.glue.umd.edu: howardjp owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 14:28:56 -0400 (EDT) From: James Howard To: "Rodney W. Grimes" Cc: Sheldon Hearn , Ben Smithurst , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: truncate(1) implementation details In-Reply-To: <200007031824.LAA13477@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> 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, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > truncate(2) has no way to ``create'' a file, and thus truncate(1) > should not either. Also -c has just the opposite meaning on the > touch(1) command, probably leading to a POLA violation :-) POLA? J~ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message