On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 2:08 PM, Jesse 1 Robinson <jesse1.robin...@sce.com> wrote:
> My first reaction was to respond acerbically that file integrity never > quite made the UNIX afterthought list, but that would have been unkind, so > I won't. But if it works, it might be worth a try. It's not customer data > anyway... > Yes, UNIX is designed around the concept that the "user" is knowledgeable about what they are doing. Very much unlike today's general users (and some Windows programmers) who think that the system should not "hurt" them regardless of what they do. IMO, my gun, my ammo and if I want to shot myself, that's my business not the gun's. I guess you'd shudder to know that I occasionally truncate a UNIX file which is being written into by another process. An extreme way to release allocated space within a filesystem. But it saved me from needing to recycle a critical task. And the output was generally just some informational data that I could live without. J.O.Skip Robinson > Southern California Edison Company > Electric Dragon Team Paddler > SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager > 323-715-0595 Mobile > 626-302-7535 Office > robin...@sce.com > > -- Klein bottle for rent -- inquire within. Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
