From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 10 10: 3:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from verdi.nethelp.no (verdi.nethelp.no [158.36.41.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A9E8737B405 for ; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 10:03:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 38105 invoked by uid 1001); 10 Apr 2002 17:03:46 +0000 (GMT) To: mkb@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de Cc: des@ofug.org, bgd@icomag.de, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 'rm' incompatibility with Posix.2 From: sthaug@nethelp.no In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 10 Apr 2002 18:00:38 +0200" References: <20020410160038.GA71167@reiher.informatik.uni-wuerzburg> X-Mailer: Mew version 1.05+ on Emacs 19.34.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 19:03:46 +0200 Message-ID: <38103.1018458226@verdi.nethelp.no> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >Please don't. This functionality is extremely useful. Consider this: > > It may be useful but it is nonstandard. FreeBSD mostly follows standards. But there are several examples of FreeBSD *not* following standards because the standards are considered broken. In this particular case - I consider the FreeBSD behavior far more *useful* than the alternative. (For those of you with long memories: SunOS used to have the same behavior as FreeBSD currently does. This changed sometime around SunOS 4.1.2/4.1.3, and caused a lot of grief at the time. Let's not make the same mistake with FreeBSD, just because some people claim it's more standards conformant.) Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message