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From: ronald@robobar.co.uk (Ronald S H Khoo)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: truncate
Message-ID: <1990Aug4.154852.6468@robobar.co.uk>
Date: 4 Aug 90 15:48:52 GMT
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In article <8977@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) writes:

>: Is it possible to truncate an open file in perl?  (like truncate(2)).
>
>It will be after the next patch, if your machine supports it.

I hope you won't forget those of us who pronounce "ftruncate" as
"chsize" and have to utter -lx to load it when hacking Configure ...

BTW are you going to consider allowing limited setting of $< on systems
that don't set[re]uid  as was suggested some time back ?  I can't remember
who it was who suggested a nice way to hack that, but whoever you are, if you
did implement it, can you mail me your patch ? I'll buy you a few beers
at the next London Unix User Group meet you manage to attend :-)
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