From owner-freebsd-bugs Fri Feb 22 6:49: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from mailman.zeta.org.au (mailman.zeta.org.au [203.26.10.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D13D537B400 for ; Fri, 22 Feb 2002 06:49:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from bde.zeta.org.au (bde.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.102]) by mailman.zeta.org.au (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id BAA13657; Sat, 23 Feb 2002 01:48:25 +1100 Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 01:48:36 +1100 (EST) From: Bruce Evans X-X-Sender: To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: Tim Robbins , Subject: Re: bin/35201: link and unlink are not SUSv2-compliant as the manpage states In-Reply-To: <54422.1014387612@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> Message-ID: <20020223014328.M25568-100000@gamplex.bde.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > On Fri, 22 Feb 2002 16:18:52 +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > > The whole point of these alternatives to ln/rm is that they have a > > simple, optionless interface. :-( Their main point is that they don't adjust the pathnames like ln/rm. > Bleh, what an entirely useless response. :-) > > I should have gone on to say... > > However, standards conformance is probably important, even here. If > scripts expect 'link -- foo bar' to work, and yet it breaks in FreeBSD, > that'll be bad. I don't think using getopt() is such a good idea any more :-). But people are used to its behaviour. No one expects "ls -foo" to list "-foo". Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message