Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 00:41:31 +0000 From: "J. Mallett" <jmallett@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: "J. Mallett" <jmallett@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/xargs Makefile strnsubst.c xargs.1 xargs.c Message-ID: <20020420004130.GB9585@FreeBSD.ORG> In-Reply-To: <p05111718b8e6651e2c9a@[128.113.24.47]> References: <200204192328.g3JNSsA87474@freefall.freebsd.org> <p05111718b8e6651e2c9a@[128.113.24.47]>
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On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 08:23:48PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 4:28 PM -0700 4/19/02, J. Mallett wrote: > > Traditional behaviour should not be affected, use of -J > > should be deprecated in favor of the more portable -I > > (though -J has been left, for now). > > Use of -J should not be depreciated. We already knew about > the standards when we implemented -J. -J provides a different > function than -I. > > Iirc, -J was documented as non-standard, but there is no need > to depreciate it. For a minute I thought we now had a standardised equivalent to -J, so I thought it should be deprecated. Now that you have pointed out to me that it was intended to be different, then having -I and -J does not matter at all. -- jmallett@FreeBSD.org | C, MIPS, POSIX, UNIX, BSD, IRC Geek. http://www.FreeBSD.org | The Power to Serve "We all need mirrors to remind ourselves who we are -- I'm no different." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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