Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 19:28:33 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> Cc: James Howard <howardjp@glue.umd.edu>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: truncate(1) implementation details Message-ID: <56043.963077313@axl.ops.uunet.co.za> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 09 Jul 2000 01:29:17 %2B0900." <396756DD.2235FC7C@newsguy.com>
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On Sun, 09 Jul 2000 01:29:17 +0900, "Daniel C. Sobral" wrote: > Means a syntax error. > > truncate -c -- -1024 nonexistant_file In actual fact, the introduction of the -r flag, which instructs truncate(1) to use the size of the file given as an argument, made a good case for demanding that a specified size argument be given as an argument to an option. See http://people.freebsd.org/~sheldonh/truncate/ in Alex's absence. Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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