Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Fri, 23 May 2003 21:07:48 +0200 | From | Andries Brouwer <> | Subject | Re: [patch?] truncate and timestamps |
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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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