Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 19:27:20 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: kientzle@acm.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man4 umass.4 Message-ID: <20031018172720.GA69603@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <8219.1066497531@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <3F916974.5030502@acm.org> <8219.1066497531@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 07:18:51PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <3F916974.5030502@acm.org>, Tim Kientzle writes: > > >>><scratching head> Okay, Poul-Henning, I give up. You've shown > >>>that /sbin/sunlabel exists, and use that as proof that "bsdlabel" > >>>is the right way to label a Sun disk? > >> > >> No, to show that disklabel isn't the right one on any platform. > > > >Okay, I clearly missed something, then. I thought that > >the intent of the 'disklabel' name (which is linked to 'bsdlabel' > >on i386, pc98, and amd64) was to provide an easy handle for > >the default label program for the current platform. Apparently, > >David thinks so, too. > > I don't think it makes much sense to symlink wildly different > programs to the same name, in particularly not when that name > has serious historical luggage and is used in some number of > highly magic scripts. > > I think disklabel should print a message to stderr, pointing people > to the likely choice of program and exit with an error code. > > If somebody wants to write a program which can truly and transparently > handle all platforms paritioning needs, he is of course more than > welcome to do so, but unless the user interface matches the historical > use of disklabel, he should still call it something sensibly different > from "disklabel". > > What David might think about this does not concern me much. I think Tim's attempt to clarify things is more than welcome. We should all be concerned about a clear and concise FreeBSD .. -- | / o / /_ _ wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte
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