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,

Gergely Czuczy
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