Tilman Schmidt wrote: > 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? Hmm. Good idea. There is precedent for that already in coreutils. cheers, Pádraig. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux-ng" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
