Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 00:18:47 -0700 From: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@osd.bsdi.com> To: juha@saarinen.org Cc: steveo@eircom.net, dan@langille.org, chris@jeah.net, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: tail Message-ID: <20010430001847U.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: <KPECIILENDDLPCNIMLOFGEOLCCAA.juha@saarinen.org> References: <20010430082051.4d66351c.steveo@eircom.net> <KPECIILENDDLPCNIMLOFGEOLCCAA.juha@saarinen.org>
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> So seeing a mess with tail/cat is useful to you? It might be, depending on what you were feeding it to. I think the point people are making is that directory data is, in certain cases, also potentially useful for something they might conceivably want to do, and if you yourself don't want to look at it then you shouldn't ask the system to show it to you. "Doctor, it hurts when I poke myself in the eye.." :) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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