Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 15:04:12 -0700 From: "Peter Kieser" <pfak@telus.net> To: <sthaug@nethelp.no> Cc: <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 'rm' incompatibility with Posix.2 Message-ID: <009c01c1e0db$a631dd70$6401a8c0@xeon> References: <20020410160038.GA71167@reiher.informatik.uni-wuerzburg> <38103.1018458226@verdi.nethelp.no>
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I say we just leave it how it is now. Else alot of people are probably going to end up deleting directories by accident. It's perfectly fine how it is, if it's not broken why fix it? -- Peter Kieser pfak@telus.net This is not about Napster or DVDs. It's about your Freedom. http://www.anti-dmca.org ----- Original Message ----- From: <sthaug@nethelp.no> To: <mkb@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de> Cc: <des@ofug.org>; <bgd@icomag.de>; <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 10:03 AM Subject: Re: 'rm' incompatibility with Posix.2 > > >Please don't. This functionality is extremely useful. Consider this: > > > > It may be useful but it is nonstandard. > > FreeBSD mostly follows standards. But there are several examples of > FreeBSD *not* following standards because the standards are considered > broken. > > In this particular case - I consider the FreeBSD behavior far more > *useful* than the alternative. > > (For those of you with long memories: SunOS used to have the same > behavior as FreeBSD currently does. This changed sometime around SunOS > 4.1.2/4.1.3, and caused a lot of grief at the time. Let's not make the > same mistake with FreeBSD, just because some people claim it's more > standards conformant.) > > Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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