Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 14:28:56 -0400 (EDT) From: James Howard <howardjp@glue.umd.edu> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Cc: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>, Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: truncate(1) implementation details Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0007031428230.28576-100000@y.glue.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <200007031824.LAA13477@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
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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
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