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> of the case is based on compatibility.  I've disagreed with Richard in the
> past when he was using the compatibility to move us towards SYSV without a
> strong reason, but since we ARE bsd, and the -d option IS bsd, the

The -d option *ISN'T* BSD.  It was added by J.T. in NetBSD, and when
OpenBSD took the entire NetBSD source tree over it was there as well.
I'll bet BSDi doesn't have it, and neither does Ultrix, which are also
BSD based systems.


Nate