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Re: [RFC] fallocate utility
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Pádraig Brady |
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Re: [RFC] fallocate utility |
Date: |
Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:16:45 +0100 |
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Tilman Schmidt wrote:
> Pádraig Brady schrieb:
>> I don't see a problem in extending the meaning of the truncate command.
>> Now truncate isn't the best name for the command but that name
>> already existed in BSD and so I thought it best to align with that.
>> So what about also having an fallocate command in coreutils?
>> Well it would benefit from all the existing options of the truncate command,
>> I.E. would share most of the code, so I'm not convinced.
>
> Why not make it, in the best Unix tradition, a single
> executable whose action depends on the name it is run as?
Hmm. Good idea.
There is precedent for that already in coreutils.
cheers,
Pádraig.