From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jan 27 07:43:21 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA29418 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 07:43:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from wopr.caltech.edu (wopr.caltech.edu [131.215.240.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA29402 for ; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 07:43:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mph@wopr.caltech.edu) Received: (from mph@localhost) by wopr.caltech.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) id HAA27914; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 07:42:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mph) Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 07:42:57 -0800 From: Matthew Hunt To: Jon Hamilton Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rm with no arguments... Message-ID: <19990127074257.B27634@wopr.caltech.edu> References: <199901270833.IAA01052@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> <19990127135354.7514745CB3@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95i In-Reply-To: <19990127135354.7514745CB3@pobox.com>; from Jon Hamilton on Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 07:53:54AM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 07:53:54AM -0600, Jon Hamilton wrote: > >From a purist point of view, I suppose you're correct. The down side > is that this breaks with many years of UNIX tradition. The code and > the man page should both be fixed IMO. Even the 4.4BSD sources in our tree display usage with "-f" and no filename. Exactly how traditional is the behaviour you want? -- Matthew Hunt * 4.4BSD: Breaking many years of UNIX tradition! http://www.pobox.com/~mph/pgp.key for PGP public key 0x67203349. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message