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To: James Howard <howardjp@glue.umd.edu>
Cc: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>,
	Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>,
	Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: truncate(1) implementation details 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 03 Jul 2000 14:28:56 EDT."
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Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 20:37:26 +0200
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
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In message <Pine.GSO.4.21.0007031428230.28576-100000@y.glue.umd.edu>, James How
ard writes:
>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?

Principle of least astonishment

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