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From: guy%gorodish@Sun.COM (Guy Harris)
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Subject: Re: BSD to SysV
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Date: Wed, 28-Oct-87 01:58:29 EST
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> For efficiency, it would be better to "mv" the original file to one with a 
> new name, "creat" the original file, and copy the desired size from the 
> newly named file to the original.

...after, of course, doing an "fstat" on the original to make sure there's only
one link to it.  Otherwise, while it's faster than overwriting the original
file, it's not equivalent to doing so or to doing an "ftruncate".
	Guy Harris
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