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Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 13:01:31 +1030
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: "Mike O'Dell" <mo@servo.ccr.org>,
        Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: "Argument by Authority"
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On Wednesday, 27 January 1999 at 14:38:23 -0500, Mike O'Dell wrote:
>
> just for a calibration,
> i asked Dennis Ritchie his opinion of "the right behavior"
>
> his comment about posix might be the trump card, although
> i'd like to see chapter and verse if that's the case.
>
> for what it's worth.
>
> 	-mo
>
>
> ------- Forwarded Message
>
> MessageName: (Message 47)
> From:    dmr@plan9.bell-labs.com
> Date:    Wed, 27 Jan 1999 14:30:59 -0500
> To:      mo@servo.ccr.org
>
> Well the research systems from v7 (just looked) through Brazil
> produce no diagnostic.  So much for "should."
>
> Irix complains, suppressible with -f.  I wonder if it's in posix?
>
> 	Dennis
>
> ------- End of Forwarded Message

On Wednesday, 27 January 1999 at 15:04:38 -0500, Garrett Wollman wrote:
> <<On Wed, 27 Jan 1999 14:38:23 -0500, "Mike O'Dell" <mo@servo.ccr.org> said:
>
>> i asked Dennis Ritchie his opinion of "the right behavior"
>
> The right behavior of what?
>
> -GAWollman

On Wednesday, 27 January 1999 at 15:59:13 -0500, Mike O'Dell wrote:
>
> i asked his notion of the right behavior of "rm"

Well, between you and dmr, you manage to remain completely obfuscated.
How about including some of the previous history?

Are you talking about whether rm without -f will fail when it can't do
its job?  Even that doesn't seem to make much sense.

Greg
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