From owner-freebsd-current Sun Sep 24 6:15:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail.gmx.net (pop.gmx.net [194.221.183.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9A78B37B422 for ; Sun, 24 Sep 2000 06:15:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 26754 invoked by uid 0); 24 Sep 2000 13:15:36 -0000 Received: from p3ee21603.dip.t-dialin.net (HELO speedy.gsinet) (62.226.22.3) by mail.gmx.net with SMTP; 24 Sep 2000 13:15:36 -0000 Received: (from sittig@localhost) by speedy.gsinet (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA15600 for current@freebsd.org; Sun, 24 Sep 2000 10:29:07 +0200 Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 10:29:07 +0200 From: Gerhard Sittig To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mtree again Message-ID: <20000924102907.J5065@speedy.gsinet> Mail-Followup-To: current@freebsd.org References: <20000915033837.A564@nagual.pp.ru> <200009142341.RAA00700@harmony.village.org> <20000915043925.A83698@nagual.pp.ru> <39CD3698.D2EF0663@cup.hp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <39CD3698.D2EF0663@cup.hp.com>; from marcel@cup.hp.com on Sat, Sep 23, 2000 at 04:02:48PM -0700 Organization: System Defenestrators Inc. Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Sep 23, 2000 at 16:02 -0700, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > "Andrey A. Chernov" wrote: > > > > [ ... mtree getopts switch code ... ] > > > > Is their any harm in just keeping the -P flag as a no-op and > optionally remove it at some later time (for backward > compatibility)? That's where I jumped in in an earlier stage of this thread. :) It should not be removed without substitute. It could be renamed to -H and should reverse the effect of -L. See symlink(7) on why command lines like "cmd -H -L -H ..." can sum up and why switching to both directions is desirable. virtually yours 82D1 9B9C 01DC 4FB4 D7B4 61BE 3F49 4F77 72DE DA76 Gerhard Sittig true | mail -s "get gpg key" Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net -- If you don't understand or are scared by any of the above ask your parents or an adult to help you. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message