From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Apr 30 0: 2:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from vimfuego.saarinen.org (saarinen.org [203.79.82.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 150AF37B424 for ; Mon, 30 Apr 2001 00:02:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from juha@saarinen.org) Received: from dendennis.saarinen.org ([192.168.1.2] helo=dendennis) by vimfuego.saarinen.org with smtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Red Hack)) id 14u6iB-0001qh-00; Mon, 30 Apr 2001 17:59:07 +1200 From: "Juha Saarinen" To: "Mike Meyer" Cc: "Dan Langille" , "Chris Byrnes" , Subject: RE: tail Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 17:58:35 +1200 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <15084.62729.75795.555796@guru.mired.org> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :: 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