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Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 17:06:56 +0100
From: Andries Brouwer <aeb@veritas.com>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
Cc: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@veritas.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] Re: [patch-2.4.0-test12-pre6] truncate(2) permissions
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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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