Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 20:37:26 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> 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 Message-ID: <7853.962649446@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 03 Jul 2000 14:28:56 EDT." <Pine.GSO.4.21.0007031428230.28576-100000@y.glue.umd.edu>
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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 -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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