From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 20 4:28: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C57337B401 for ; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 04:28:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailout11.sul.t-online.com (mailout11.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.85]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8348243E77 for ; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 04:27:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Received: from fwd01.sul.t-online.de by mailout11.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 18ETxP-000207-09; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 13:27:51 +0100 Received: from Andro-Beta.Leidinger.net (520065502893-0001@[80.131.110.93]) by fmrl01.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 18ETxG-270yiuC; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 13:27:42 +0100 Received: from Magelan.Leidinger.net (Magelan [192.168.1.1]) by Andro-Beta.Leidinger.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gAKCRfZ7031545; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 13:27:41 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Received: from Magelan.Leidinger.net (netchild@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Magelan.Leidinger.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with SMTP id gAKCRh6k001254; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 13:27:43 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 13:27:43 +0100 From: Alexander Leidinger To: David Schultz Cc: Garrett Wollman , 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> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.5claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Sender: 520065502893-0001@t-dialin.net Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 10:27:00 -0800 David Schultz 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. -- Speak softly and carry a cellular phone. http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net GPG fingerprint = C518 BC70 E67F 143F BE91 3365 79E2 9C60 B006 3FE7 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message