On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 08:02:00PM +0200, Kai Henningsen wrote:
> > On Fri, 23 May 2003 Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:
> > >
> > > On the other hand, my question was really a different one:
> > > do we want to follow POSIX, also in the silly requirement
> > > that truncate only sets mtime when the size changes, while
> > > O_TRUNC and ftruncate always set mtime.
>
> See:
>
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/functions/ftruncate.html
>
> Is it really so hard to look it up that we need to spout FUD instead?
Look up ftruncate, look up truncate, loop up open with O_TRUNC and compare.
You will understand what the discussion is about.
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