From owner-cvs-all Fri Apr 19 17:35:12 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from finntroll.newgold.net (Durham-ar1-4-64-252-019.dsl.genuity.net [4.64.252.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 94D1737B41E for ; Fri, 19 Apr 2002 17:35:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 6387 invoked by uid 1001); 20 Apr 2002 00:41:31 -0000 Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 00:41:31 +0000 From: "J. Mallett" To: Garance A Drosihn Cc: "J. Mallett" , 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> References: <200204192328.g3JNSsA87474@freefall.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Organisation: FreeBSD Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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