Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 19:03:46 +0200 From: sthaug@nethelp.no To: mkb@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de Cc: des@ofug.org, bgd@icomag.de, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 'rm' incompatibility with Posix.2 Message-ID: <38103.1018458226@verdi.nethelp.no> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 10 Apr 2002 18:00:38 %2B0200" References: <20020410160038.GA71167@reiher.informatik.uni-wuerzburg>
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> >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
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