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Date:      Tue, 5 Mar 2002 20:07:42 -0500
From:      Pete Fritchman <petef@databits.net>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        Pete Fritchman <petef@FreeBSD.org>, 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>
In-Reply-To: <20020305164050.A74189@xor.obsecurity.org>; from kris@obsecurity.org on Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 04:40:50PM -0800
References:  <200203051742.g25Hghi15376@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020305164050.A74189@xor.obsecurity.org>

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++ 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

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