Thus spake Theo de Raadt (deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org):

> I overstated the case here.  It's not useless.  But the power it
> provides is not significant compared to the impact it can have on the
> portability of shell scripts.

We added a STANARDS section to the manpage which explititely states,
that for compatibilty one should _not_ use truncate(1).

And to reach the functionality of truncate(1), it will become a long
shellscript with some ugly hacks, e.g. for the -r option.

Alex
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