Re: [RFC] fallocate utility

[Tilman Schmidt]

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?

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