Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 13:27:43 +0100 From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> To: David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU> Cc: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Asking for tester (small patch to chown(8)/chgrp(1)) Message-ID: <20021120132743.5a46abbe.Alexander@Leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <20021119182700.GA3030@HAL9000.homeunix.com> References: <200211161129.gAGBTKHJ033124@lurza.secnetix.de> <20021117155159.44aeae5f.Alexander@Leidinger.net> <200211181807.gAII7u0w015430@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <20021119182700.GA3030@HAL9000.homeunix.com>
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On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 10:27:00 -0800
David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU> wrote:
> > > I'm concerned about the used character: "-r" is similiar to "-R"
> >
> > Yes, `-r' would be a very poor choice for the reason you state.
>
> Agreed, but the precedent has already been set by touch(1) and
> truncate(1). If we're going to get it wrong some of the time, we
> might as well be consistent about it.
When we don't look at the fact that neither touch nor truncate operate
recursivly... what about changing touch and truncate to allow the
proposed -c (or -i) too and mark -r as deprecated (if it isn't covered
by a standard)?
Bye,
Alexander.
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