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Date:      Mon, 03 Jul 2000 15:05:36 +0200
From:      Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To:        James Howard <howardjp@glue.umd.edu>
Cc:        arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: truncate(1) implementation details 
Message-ID:  <30005.962629536@axl.ops.uunet.co.za>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 03 Jul 2000 09:01:20 -0400." <Pine.GSO.4.21.0007030900160.3727-100000@y.glue.umd.edu> 

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On Mon, 03 Jul 2000 09:01:20 -0400, James Howard wrote:

> It would make sense to have it follow the semantics of the system call and
> then add a -c to create if nonexistent as Langer suggested.

I'm convinced, but it introduces a problem.  Given that it looks like
we'll allow '+' or '-' to be prepended to the size argument to allow
size changes rather than absolute sizes, what does this mean:

	truncate -c -1024 nonexistant_file

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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