From owner-freebsd-bugs Wed Jul 11 2:40:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 221F537B405 for ; Wed, 11 Jul 2001 02:40:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f6B9e2A46673; Wed, 11 Jul 2001 02:40:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 02:40:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200107110940.f6B9e2A46673@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Joel Ray Holveck Subject: Re: bin/7265: A warning flag is added to ln(1). Reply-To: Joel Ray Holveck Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR bin/7265; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Joel Ray Holveck To: Leo Bicknell 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 -- Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message