[PATCH] truncate: new applet

Jody Bruchon jody at jodybruchon.com
Tue Mar 3 17:12:52 UTC 2015


On March 3, 2015 12:02:55 PM EST, Isaac Dunham <ibid.ag at gmail.com> wrote:
>Was this copy-pasted from coreutils/dd.c?
>The bloat could be reduced by making it shared between dd and truncate;

Also, is there any real reason for the D suffix to exist in BusyBox at all? It seems unnecessary. My understanding is that modern convention is that MB and MiB are supposed to be used to differentiate between decimal and binary metrics, respectively. I personally like my binary KB/MB/etc. but disk manufacturers had to go and ruin everything for marketing purposes.

-Jody


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