From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Apr 30 0:23:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8192C37B422 for ; Mon, 30 Apr 2001 00:23:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 31307 invoked by uid 100); 30 Apr 2001 07:23:40 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15085.4860.848971.308268@guru.mired.org> Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 02:23:40 -0500 To: "Juha Saarinen" Cc: "Kris Kennaway" , "Dan Langille" , "Chris Byrnes" , Subject: RE: tail In-Reply-To: References: <20010429221233.A99057@xor.obsecurity.org> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Juha Saarinen types: > :: UNIX is about doing what you ask for. You want to tail/cat a > :: directory, who is the system to tell you otherwise. > > That's just silly. > > Who hasn't mistakenly tailed/cat'ed a directory? > > I thought the "User-unfriendliness Is Cool" era was long buried. User-unfriendliness Is Cool is indeed buried. Deciding that the user shouldn't do something because you don't think it's a good idea is User-unfriendly, which is why Unix doesn't *do* things like that. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message