Re: [patch] Re: [patch-2.4.0-test12-pre6] truncate(2) permissions

From: Andries Brouwer (aeb@veritas.com)
Date: Thu Dec 07 2000 - 11:06:56 EST


On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 08:23:59AM -0500, Alexander Viro wrote:

> <looking at the truncate(2) manpage>
> Oh, lovely - where the hell had the following come from?
> % man truncate
> ...
> EINVAL The pathname contains a character with the high-
> order bit set.
> ...
> Andries, would you mind removing that, erm, statement? I'm curious about
> its genesis - AFAIK we had 8bit-clean namei for ages (quite possibly since
> 0.01).

I removed it in man-pages-1.30.
Apparently you have an older version.
(1.31 has been released; expect 1.32 soon)

Andries
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