Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 18:48:24 +0200 From: des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=) To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/bin/rm rm.1 rm.c Message-ID: <xzp3c0uxwdj.fsf@dwp.des.no> In-Reply-To: <20041004.103638.70543632.imp@bsdimp.com> (M. Warner Losh's message of "Mon, 04 Oct 2004 10:36:38 -0600 (MDT)") References: <200410041126.i94BQ273055417@repoman.freebsd.org> <20041004.103638.70543632.imp@bsdimp.com>
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"M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> writes: > I contend that this change is technically flawed. While it is allowed > by the standards, I believe we should exit entirely when we hit this > 'third rail' rather than just ignoring the offending arg. If it is > there as a sanity check, and you hit it, you can't assume that the > rest of the arguments are sane at all. This is fundamentally > different than the '.' checks, which do remove the bad args from the > list and aren't likely the results of an error. I don't personally object to the behaviour you propose, but it is not what will be in the standard. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no
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