From owner-cvs-all Mon Jul 27 08:58:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from daemon@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA10516 for cvs-all-outgoing; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 08:58:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all) Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA10379; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 08:57:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dag-erli@ifi.uio.no) Received: from hrotti.ifi.uio.no (2602@hrotti.ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.15]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.8/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with ESMTP id RAA17289; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 17:43:12 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from dag-erli@localhost) by hrotti.ifi.uio.no ; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 17:43:11 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Hawkins Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , Tim Vanderhoek , Bruce Evans , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/time time.1 time.c References: Organization: University of Oslo, Department of Informatics X-url: http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~dag-erli/ X-other-addresses: 'finger dag-erli@ifi.uio.no' for a list X-disclaimer-1: The views expressed in this article are mine alone, and do X-disclaimer-2: not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or X-disclaimer-3: company with which am or have been affiliated. X-Stop-Spam: http://www.cauce.org/ From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) Date: 27 Jul 1998 17:43:10 +0200 In-Reply-To: Peter Hawkins's message of "Tue, 28 Jul 1998 00:02:59 +1000 (EST)" Message-ID: Lines: 17 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id IAB10415 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Peter Hawkins writes: > > I just committed the patch, don't throw dictionaries at the messenger... > I thought committers were not messengers? Aren't we responsible for > vetting/spellchecking/style management? I would like the -f excised > anyway but even if it stays, doesn't mean the patch has to go in verbatim :) I was also opposed to it; but it's been committed, and we've quarrelled about it long enough, so I suggest we just leave it in and stop arguing. Nonetheless, the patch is a kludge and the wording of the man page is clumsy at best. I'm working on correcting this (and changing the -f option to -o, which others have pointed out as the Right Thing) DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - dag-erli@ifi.uio.no