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Date:      25 May 1998 20:10:52 +0200
From:      dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= )
To:        Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net>
Cc:        "Dag-Erling C. Smxf8rgrav" <des@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-usrbin@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/who who.c
Message-ID:  <xzplnrqmdar.fsf@bilskirnir.ifi.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: Steve Price's message of "Mon, 25 May 1998 11:02:23 -0500 (CDT)"
References:  <Pine.OSF.3.96.980525105920.3073Q-100000@fly.HiWAAY.net>

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Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net> writes:
> No!  Even as sleepy as I was when I made the commit,
> the way I understood the problem pointed out by Ruslan
> goes something like this:
> 
> steve[~]$ who -z
> who: -z: No such file or directory

And how is that bad?

The main problem with who is that it would treat e.g. 'who is god' the
same as 'who am i'.

IMHO it is a Good Thing that who will accept filenames beginning with
a hyphen. Who doesn't take *any* kind of option and therefore I think
it is wrong to have it say 'unrecognized option' if the first argument
begins with a dash.

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