On Tue, 10 May 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 03:37:33PM +0200, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> >...
> > The /dev/null trick only works well for adding files, not removing them.
>
> It works fine for removing files except when they have a zero length.
>
Then a two-patch approach would seem to work as a hack. First patch just
adds a blank line to the file making in non-zero length, second patch then
uses the /dev/null trick to kill the file. A hack? Yes, certainly, but it
sounds like it would work (actually, it does work, just tried it).
--
Jesper Juhl
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