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Date:      Tue, 19 Nov 2002 10:27:00 -0800
From:      David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU>
To:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
Cc:        Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Asking for tester (small patch to chown(8)/chgrp(1))
Message-ID:  <20021119182700.GA3030@HAL9000.homeunix.com>
In-Reply-To: <200211181807.gAII7u0w015430@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
References:  <200211161129.gAGBTKHJ033124@lurza.secnetix.de> <20021117155159.44aeae5f.Alexander@Leidinger.net> <200211181807.gAII7u0w015430@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>

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Thus spake Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>:
> > 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.

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