Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 02:40:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/7265: A warning flag is added to ln(1). Message-ID: <200107110940.f6B9e2A46673@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/7265; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.org>
To: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/7265: A warning flag is added to ln(1).
Date: 11 Jul 2001 02:32:47 -0700
> I found this pr quite funny, but it hit me that the real solution is
> not a patch to ln. It's right there in the how to repeat:
You have a good point there. However, the original idea got shot down
because adding a message was determined to be unsafe. It is possible
that others may deem changing an existing message to be unsafe. You
may want to discuss the idea with -hackers.
Feel free to cc me on that discussion; I'm not presently subscribed to
-hackers.
joelh
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