On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 12:11:53PM -0400, David S. Madole wrote:
Eric Anderson wrote:
Is it expected that truncate(8) must be used by a superuser? If so,
then the man page should probably mention it. If not, then it's
broken :)
That's a pretty weak attempt at a bug report, and a wrong one, too:
$ uname -m -r -s
FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE i386
$ id
uid=2028(madole) gid=2000(users) groups=2000(users)
$ echo "this is a test" > test
$ ls -l test
-rw-r----- 1 madole httpd 15 May 30 12:06 test
$ truncate -s 7 test
$ ls -l test
-rw-r----- 1 madole httpd 7 May 30 12:06 test
$ cat test
this is$
also works for me on 6-RELEASE-p7
Bye,
Weenies test. Geniuses solve problems that arise.
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