Re: truncate tool - must be root?

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$

Want to try again, giving any sort of interesting details you can, like version you tested on or a reproducible test case?

David

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