From owner-freebsd-standards Fri Feb 22 6:21:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-standards@freebsd.org Received: from straylight.ringlet.net (discworld.nanolink.com [217.75.135.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6DEEA37B400 for ; Fri, 22 Feb 2002 06:21:47 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 68054 invoked by uid 1000); 22 Feb 2002 14:22:14 -0000 Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 16:22:14 +0200 From: Peter Pentchev To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: Tim Robbins , bug-followup@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/35201: link and unlink are not SUSv2-compliant as the manpage states Message-ID: <20020222162214.H66747@straylight.oblivion.bg> References: <54382.1014387532@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> <54422.1014387612@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <54422.1014387612@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za>; from sheldonh@starjuice.net on Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 04:20:12PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 04:20:12PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > > On Fri, 22 Feb 2002 16:18:52 +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > > The whole point of these alternatives to ln/rm is that they have a > > simple, optionless interface. :-( > > Bleh, what an entirely useless response. :-) > > I should have gone on to say... > > However, standards conformance is probably important, even here. If > scripts expect 'link -- foo bar' to work, and yet it breaks in FreeBSD, > that'll be bad. I agree with that; and IMHO, since these utilities are really *not* expected to do any options parsing, we should just accept Tim's original patches, even as they avoid getopt(3). G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev roam@ringlet.net roam@FreeBSD.org PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B68D 1619 4553 I've heard that this sentence is a rumor. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-standards" in the body of the message