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- From: thomas%utah-gr@UTAH-CS.ARPA (Spencer W. Thomas)
- Date: Sun, 30 Mar 86 17:22:21 MST
- Organization: University of Utah CS Dept
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- Of course, 4.[23] BSD already has a ftruncate() primitive, which does
- exactly what the original poster wants on files. One could presumably
- make it have "EOF" semantics when applied to pipes (since the behavior
- there is currently an error).
-
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- =Spencer ({ihnp4,decvax}!utah-cs!thomas, thomas@utah-cs.ARPA)
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- Volume-Number: Volume 6, Number 9
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