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From: Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com>
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Subject: Re: "Argument by Authority"
In-Reply-To: <19990128130131.J4819@freebie.lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "Jan 28, 99 01:01:31 pm"
To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey)
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Greg Lehey wrote:

> 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.

This relates to a thread on -stable "rm with no arguments" and was
probably posted to -current by mistake.

>From the man page:

| COMPATIBILITY
|      The rm utility differs from historical implementations in that
|      the -f option only masks attempts to remove non-existent
|      files instead of masking a large variety of errors.

-- 
Robert Nordier

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