From owner-cvs-all Tue Mar 5 17:34:51 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-64-169-107-10.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.169.107.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C3CC37B41D; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 17:34:23 -0800 (PST) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8ADD766C32; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 17:34:20 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 17:34:20 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Pete Fritchman Cc: Kris Kennaway , Pete Fritchman , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/sysutils Makefile ports/sysutils/mkfile Makefile distinfo pkg-comment pkg-descr pkg-plist ports/sysutils/mkfile/files patch-Makefile Message-ID: <20020305173420.A74906@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <200203051742.g25Hghi15376@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020305164050.A74189@xor.obsecurity.org> <20020305200742.B80278@databits.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="liOOAslEiF7prFVr" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020305200742.B80278@databits.net>; from petef@databits.net on Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 08:07:42PM -0500 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --liOOAslEiF7prFVr Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 08:07:42PM -0500, Pete Fritchman wrote: > ++ 05/03/02 16:40 -0800 - Kris Kennaway: > | > Log: > | > Add mkfile 1.0, create files suitable for use as swap files. > |=20 > | What can this do that truncate(1) cannot already do? > |=20 > | Kris >=20 > Hmm, well, I've never seen it before and nobody brought it up on -ports > a while ago when I asked why this port was necessary. One advantage is > that there is an identical command in Solaris, but I'm not sure how > important that is... Personally, I think that unless there are functional differences it should be removed.. Kris --liOOAslEiF7prFVr Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8hXIbWry0BWjoQKURAnz/AKDkwslqp+rgohGMU0DW7QcTtxtCXQCg2QSs Z/hj7sRg25kMrTyycmQHb+E= =Y8ru -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --liOOAslEiF7prFVr-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message