Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 22:24:05 +0200 From: Jens Schweikhardt <schweikh@schweikhardt.net> To: Johan Karlsson <johan@freebsd.org> Cc: standards@freebsd.org Subject: Re: add option '-t tty' to biff(1)/mesg(1) Message-ID: <20020722222405.A8193@schweikhardt.net> In-Reply-To: <20020722201541.B23363@numeri.campus.luth.se> References: <20020722201541.B23363@numeri.campus.luth.se>
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Johan, On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 08:15:41PM +0200, Johan Karlsson wrote: # Hi # # I'm planing to add an option '-t tty' to # biff and mesg. See PRs 13072/13073 for details. # # I would like to know if this will violate any # of the standards we are trying to conform to. In general, adding options is okay with respect to standards conformance. In fact, new options are a significant part of the added value of a conforming system. If POSIX forbade additional options, any vendor's system would look alike, and you - as a customer - would go for the cheapest (hm, FreeBSD comes to mind, not so bad an idea :-) # mesg(1) is covered by POSIX according to # http://people.FreeBSD.org/~schweikh/posix-utilities.html # but there is no -t option. As long as the options don't conflict and there is consensus about the usefulness you are okay. Note that the options on this page are only the POSIX mandated ones -- FreeBSD may already have more than those. # biff(1) does not seem to be in POSIX. # # Is there any other such nice summary for other # standards that I can look at? # # Unless I get good reason not to I will propose # this addition of -t on -arch the comming days. Go ahead. Regards, Jens -- Jens Schweikhardt http://www.schweikhardt.net/ SIGSIG -- signature too long (core dumped) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-standards" in the body of the message
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