From owner-freebsd-current Tue Nov 19 10:27: 4 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FFAD37B401 for ; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 10:27:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from HAL9000.homeunix.com (12-232-220-15.client.attbi.com [12.232.220.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2C5143E88 for ; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 10:27:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU) Received: from HAL9000.homeunix.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by HAL9000.homeunix.com (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id gAJIR0tX003078; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 10:27:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU) Received: (from das@localhost) by HAL9000.homeunix.com (8.12.6/8.12.5/Submit) id gAJIR0v5003077; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 10:27:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU) Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 10:27:00 -0800 From: David Schultz To: Garrett Wollman Cc: Alexander Leidinger , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Asking for tester (small patch to chown(8)/chgrp(1)) Message-ID: <20021119182700.GA3030@HAL9000.homeunix.com> Mail-Followup-To: Garrett Wollman , Alexander Leidinger , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200211161129.gAGBTKHJ033124@lurza.secnetix.de> <20021117155159.44aeae5f.Alexander@Leidinger.net> <200211181807.gAII7u0w015430@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200211181807.gAII7u0w015430@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thus spake Garrett Wollman : > > I'm concerned about the used character: "-r" is similiar to "-R" > > Yes, `-r' would be a very poor choice for the reason you state. Agreed, but the precedent has already been set by touch(1) and truncate(1). If we're going to get it wrong some of the time, we might as well be consistent about it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message