From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jul 11 08:39:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA11910 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sat, 11 Jul 1998 08:39:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from artemis.syncom.net (artemis.syncom.net [206.64.31.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA11894 for ; Sat, 11 Jul 1998 08:39:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cyouse@artemis.syncom.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by artemis.syncom.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA07461; Sat, 11 Jul 1998 11:46:54 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 11 Jul 1998 11:46:54 -0400 (EDT) From: Charles Youse To: Bakul Shah cc: joelh@gnu.org, dchapes@ddm.on.ca, rminnich@Sarnoff.COM, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Improvemnet of ln(1). In-Reply-To: <199807111442.KAA19474@chai.torrentnet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 11 Jul 1998, Bakul Shah wrote: > For interactive use, alias ln to `ln -w' to warn you. If you > change the default behavior of ln, you *will* break scripts. > Unlike editors, ln is more likely to be used in scripts than > interactively (well, it is so for most people). I fail to see how. An extra line output to stderr is going to break scripts? Can you provide an example? > Bottom line: backward compatibility is a good program design. Well, not always. Compare Windows/DOS. Chuck To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message