From owner-cvs-all Sun Aug 29 23:20:28 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from gratis.grondar.za (gratis.grondar.za [196.7.18.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23C5E15276; Sun, 29 Aug 1999 23:20:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@grondar.za) Received: from grondar.za (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gratis.grondar.za (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA27006; Mon, 30 Aug 1999 08:19:56 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from mark@grondar.za) Message-Id: <199908300619.IAA27006@gratis.grondar.za> To: Bill Fumerola Cc: "Rodney W. Grimes" , Michael Haro , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/bin/mkdir mkdir.1 mkdir.c Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 08:19:55 +0200 From: Mark Murray Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > > 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