From owner-freebsd-current Sun Nov 17 12: 1:51 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 7A26237B401 for ; Sun, 17 Nov 2002 12:01:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (lurza.secnetix.de [212.66.1.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B947543E42 for ; Sun, 17 Nov 2002 12:01:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id gAHK1YdK087102 for ; Sun, 17 Nov 2002 21:01:34 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from oliver.fromme@secnetix.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.12.6/8.12.5/Submit) id gAHK1XvB087101; Sun, 17 Nov 2002 21:01:33 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 21:01:33 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <200211172001.gAHK1XvB087101@lurza.secnetix.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Asking for tester (small patch to chown(8)/chgrp(1)) In-Reply-To: <20021117155159.44aeae5f.Alexander@Leidinger.net> X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-current User-Agent: tin/1.5.4-20000523 ("1959") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/4.7-RELEASE (i386)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 Alexander Leidinger wrote: > Oliver Fromme wrote: > > The patch adds an option -r to chown(8) and chgrp(1), which > > does pretty much the same as the -r option of touch(1) and > > truncate(1). Basically, it let's you "copy" ownerships and > > group memberships from one file to another, which is useful > > in scripts. > > I'm concerned about the used character: "-r" is similiar to "-R" Why exactly is that cause for concern? What character would you suggest instead? touch(1) and truncate(1) also use "-r". Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "All that we see or seem is just a dream within a dream" (E. A. Poe) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message