From owner-cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 18 10:27:48 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-src@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3C3C16A4B3; Sat, 18 Oct 2003 10:27:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtpzilla3.xs4all.nl (smtpzilla3.xs4all.nl [194.109.127.139]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EA6843F3F; Sat, 18 Oct 2003 10:27:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (freebie.xs4all.nl [213.84.32.253]) by smtpzilla3.xs4all.nl (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h9IHRQOL076775; Sat, 18 Oct 2003 19:27:35 +0200 (CEST) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.12.9p1/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h9IHRKPq069641; Sat, 18 Oct 2003 19:27:20 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.12.9p1/8.12.9/Submit) id h9IHRKo1069640; Sat, 18 Oct 2003 19:27:20 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 19:27:20 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte To: Poul-Henning Kamp Message-ID: <20031018172720.GA69603@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <3F916974.5030502@acm.org> <8219.1066497531@critter.freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <8219.1066497531@critter.freebsd.dk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-OS: FreeBSD 4.9-PRERELEASE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.ORG cc: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG cc: Marc Fonvieille cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG cc: kientzle@acm.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man4 umass.4 X-BeenThere: cvs-src@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the src tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 17:27:48 -0000 On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 07:18:51PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <3F916974.5030502@acm.org>, Tim Kientzle writes: > > >>> 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