Pádraig Brady schrieb: > I don't see a problem in extending the meaning of the truncate command. > Now truncate isn't the best name for the command but that name > already existed in BSD and so I thought it best to align with that. > So what about also having an fallocate command in coreutils? > Well it would benefit from all the existing options of the truncate command, > I.E. would share most of the code, so I'm not convinced. Why not make it, in the best Unix tradition, a single executable whose action depends on the name it is run as? -- Tilman Schmidt E-Mail: tilman@xxxxxxx Bonn, Germany Diese Nachricht besteht zu 100% aus wiederverwerteten Bits. Ungeöffnet mindestens haltbar bis: (siehe Rückseite)
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