Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 08:19:55 +0200 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> To: Bill Fumerola <billf@jade.chc-chimes.com> Cc: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>, Michael Haro <mharo@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/bin/mkdir mkdir.1 mkdir.c Message-ID: <199908300619.IAA27006@gratis.grondar.za>
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> > > Kudos to Michael for actually doing something about it. > > It has already been demonstrated many times in the past that applying > > changes asked for in PR's to close them just for the sake of closing > > them is not something to be praised for. > > No, but adding requested features are. If we need to mention in the man > page that these options aren't portable, then so be it. You are missing a large point here. Closing PR's by adding features that users _think_ they want, ranther than by showing them canonical UNIX ways of doing things is _wrong_. Rather show them the UNIX way. EG- A couple of years ago, someone wanted date(1) to not put a \n at the end of its output (for whatever reason), and he added a new -n flag to do it. Canonical UNIX method to do this is $ echo -n `date` so the -n option to date(1) was quite rightly backed out. If you want cp(1) to be "noisy", why not simply $ echo cp * foo $ cp * foo or $ set -x $ cp * foo ? M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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