<<On Thu, 8 Jul 2004 16:04:40 +1000 (EST), Bruce Evans <bde at zeta.org.au> said: > This doesn't apply to FreeBSD. Truncation is still useful (and used) for > old non-POSIX file systems like msdosfs: If msdosfs is mounted, then the system does not conform to POSIX. Since UFS does have this behavior, this is not a problem. -GAWollman