From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon Oct 9 11:27: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from mail.disney.com (mail.disney.com [204.128.192.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29F2D37B66C for ; Mon, 9 Oct 2000 11:27:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pain10.corp.disney.com (root@pain10.corp.disney.com [153.7.110.100]) by mail.disney.com (Switch-2.0.1/Switch-2.0.1) with SMTP id e99IPuR12561 for ; Mon, 9 Oct 2000 11:25:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from louie.fa.disney.com by pain.corp.disney.com with ESMTP for freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 9 Oct 2000 11:26:29 -0700 Received: from mercury.fan.fa.disney.com (mercury.fan.fa.disney.com [153.7.119.1]) by louie.fa.disney.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id LAA24910 for ; Mon, 9 Oct 2000 11:25:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Jim.Pirzyk@disney.com) Received: from snoopy.fan.fa.disney.com by mercury.fan.fa.disney.com; Mon, 9 Oct 2000 11:25:54 -0700 From: Jim Pirzyk Organization: Walt Disney Feature Animation To: Garrett Wollman Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: bin/21789: no mkfile command Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 11:22:34 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200010091530.IAA09075@freefall.freebsd.org> <200010091818.OAA17247@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <200010091818.OAA17247@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00100911255504.00437@snoopy.fan.fa.disney.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 09 Oct 2000, Garrett Wollman wrote: > < 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. yes it is not a codified standard but a de-facto one. SGI, Apple (OS X) & Sun all have it (Cray, Dec/OSF1/Linux do not). - JimP > > -GAWollman > > -- > Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same > wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom > Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame > MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick -- --- @(#) $Id: dot.signature,v 1.9 2000/07/10 16:43:05 pirzyk Exp $ __o Jim.Pirzyk@disney.com ------------------------------------- _'\<,_ Senior Systems Engineer, Walt Disney Feature Animation (*)/ (*) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message