GNU bug report logs - #6268
Suggestion: truncate should allow -r and -s options together

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones <at> redhat.com>

Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 15:42:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>

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From: "Voelker, Bernhard" <bernhard.voelker <at> siemens-enterprise.com>
To: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>, Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
Cc: "6268 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <6268 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: bug#6268: Suggestion: truncate should allow -r and -s options together
Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 08:31:49 +0200

Pádraig Brady wrote:
> Jim Meyering wrote:
>> what about --ref=non-regular-file ?

> Yes that's safer. st_size is only defined for regular files
> (or shared mem), so I'll only allow regular files.
> I'll push a separate patch soon.

what about --ref=- ?

one wants to have a file with the size
of a partition plus 5G, e.g.
	truncate --ref=/dev/sda5 -s +5G myfile
This will fail and will be rejected with such a patch.
So the user could use:
	truncate --ref=- -s +5G myfile < /dev/sda5

Just a thought ...

Have a nice day,
Berny
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