Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 17:58:35 +1200 From: "Juha Saarinen" <juha@saarinen.org> To: "Mike Meyer" <mwm@mired.org> Cc: "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org>, "Chris Byrnes" <chris@jeah.net>, <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: tail Message-ID: <KPECIILENDDLPCNIMLOFEEOKCCAA.juha@saarinen.org> In-Reply-To: <15084.62729.75795.555796@guru.mired.org>
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:: Well, yes, tail on a directory is a silly thing to do unthinkingly. :: But the silly one isn't tail, it's the user who issued the command :: without thinking. So the butter-fingered luser must be punished? :: More proof that linux isn't Unix. :: :: On Unix, it's generally more important to make sure the user can shoot :: anything they want than it is to keep the user from shooting :: themselves in the foot. In that case, tail should cause a kernel panic if you try to run it on a directory. If you really want to wallow in pendantry, please remember that "shooting yourself in the foot" isn't the right metaphor in this context. -- Juha To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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