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Date:      Tue, 31 Oct 2000 11:31:18 -0800 (PST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        arch@FreeBSD.org, Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Subject:   Re: Like to commit my diskprep
Message-ID:  <XFMail.001031113118.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <14192.973017410@critter>

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On 31-Oct-00 Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <200010311747.KAA80353@harmony.village.org>, Warner Losh writes:
>>
>>I'd like to commit my diskprep program and go fix all the cross
>>references in the man pages to include a pointer to it.  THe crrent
>>diskprep code is in
>>
>>      http://people.freebsd.org/~imp/diskprep
> 
> Yes!
> 
> My only request is that you disallow the bogus
> 
>       diskprep ad0
> 
> syntax and require people to enter a full and decent path:
> 
>       diskprep /dev/ad0

Why?  Both fdisk(8) and disklabel(8) don't require the full path.
Requiring it for diskprep would violate POLA IMO.

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