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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!menudo.uh.edu!uuneo!sugar!peter From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: File Truncation Philosophy Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900 Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1993 09:47:10 GMT Message-ID: <C5GwIM.Gx9@sugar.neosoft.com> References: <1993Apr11.035322.19610@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <C5FJx6.o5w@ns1.nodak.edu> <1993Apr13.203234.16408@fcom.cc.utah.edu> Lines: 13 In article <1993Apr13.203234.16408@fcom.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes: > approach... this assumes Posix compliance is a goal: it's one of mine, > but potentially not one of Bill and Lynne's... any comments? POSIX compliance is useful, but not useful enough that I'd want to see a hairy mechanism like this added to cover what's really a pretty rare case. And REMOVING useful feedback (like ETXTBSY instead of EBUSY) to satisfy POSIX seems pretty bogus. -- Peter da Silva. <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>. `-_-' Oletko halannut suttasi tänään? 'U` Tarjoilija, tämä ateria elää vielä.