From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Sep 9 00:03:36 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id AAA05549 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 9 Sep 1995 00:03:36 -0700 Received: from Root.COM (implode.Root.COM [198.145.90.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id AAA05543 for ; Sat, 9 Sep 1995 00:03:34 -0700 Received: from corbin.Root.COM (corbin [198.145.90.34]) by Root.COM (8.6.12/8.6.5) with ESMTP id AAA00460; Sat, 9 Sep 1995 00:02:24 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by corbin.Root.COM (8.6.11/8.6.5) with SMTP id AAA25899; Sat, 9 Sep 1995 00:04:32 -0700 Message-Id: <199509090704.AAA25899@corbin.Root.COM> To: Julian Elischer cc: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: bug in 4.4lite (fixed in lite2) In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 08 Sep 95 23:30:01 PDT." <199509090630.XAA00624@ref.tfs.com> From: David Greenman Reply-To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Sat, 09 Sep 1995 00:04:31 -0700 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >I take your point >and conclude that the people doing posix must have been very confused >however what lite was doing before (removing the target and leaving >the source) isn't right by posix either. >I think it makes sense to make the semantic the same >whether or not the two are linked.. >however maybe we need to take a vote on it.. >I notice that 4.4lite2 voted with me on this, and >wonder if there is a newer version of posix they may have referenced on this.. I'm sure it was Kirk who made the decision. I just checked SunOS 4.1.3 and found that it does the POSIX thing (nothing). I've been forwarding this thread to Kirk, and I'll forward his reply if necessary. -DG