From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jan 27 20:37:52 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA08329 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 20:37:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA08286 for ; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 20:37:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id PAA22968; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 15:07:10 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.2/8.9.0) id PAA06433; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 15:06:42 +1030 (CST) Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 15:06:42 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Robert Nordier Cc: mo@servo.ccr.org, wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "Argument by Authority" Message-ID: <19990128150642.S4819@freebie.lemis.com> References: <19990128130131.J4819@freebie.lemis.com> <199901280348.FAA29674@ceia.nordier.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <199901280348.FAA29674@ceia.nordier.com>; from Robert Nordier on Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 05:48:31AM +0200 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, 28 January 1999 at 5:48:31 +0200, Robert Nordier wrote: > 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. >>> >>> ------- 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: >>> < 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. > >> 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. Ah, yes, that makes sense. Amazing what a bit of context does, eh? Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message