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Date:      Mon, 9 Oct 2000 14:18:59 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Jim Pirzyk <Jim.Pirzyk@disney.com>
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Fwd: Re: bin/21789: no mkfile command
Message-ID:  <200010091818.OAA17247@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200010091530.IAA09075@freefall.freebsd.org>
References:  <200010091530.IAA09075@freefall.freebsd.org>

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<<On Mon, 9 Oct 2000 08:30:05 -0700 (PDT), Jim Pirzyk <Jim.Pirzyk@disney.com> said:

>  The command not only creates a file, but also creates it with a certain
>  size > 0.  I have included the SunOS man page to see how it is used.
 
mkfile(1) is not standardized in either SUSv2 or POSIX.1-1996; the POSIX
draft 4 rationale mentions that it was considered for inclusion and
rejected.

-GAWollman

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