From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 19 11:34:22 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA17281 for current-outgoing; Mon, 19 Feb 1996 11:34:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from sequent.kiae.su (sequent.kiae.su [144.206.136.6]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA17276 for ; Mon, 19 Feb 1996 11:34:16 -0800 (PST) Received: by sequent.kiae.su id AA03337 (5.65.kiae-2 ); Mon, 19 Feb 1996 22:23:02 +0300 Received: by sequent.KIAE.su (UUMAIL/2.0); Mon, 19 Feb 96 22:23:00 +0300 Received: (from ache@localhost) by ache.dialup.ru (8.7.3/8.7.3) id WAA02478; Mon, 19 Feb 1996 22:19:44 +0300 (MSK) To: Bruce Evans , wollman@lcs.mit.edu, wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG References: <199602191828.FAA10270@godzilla.zeta.org.au> In-Reply-To: <199602191828.FAA10270@godzilla.zeta.org.au>; from Bruce Evans at Tue, 20 Feb 1996 05:28:29 +1100 Message-Id: Organization: Olahm Ha-Yetzirah Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 22:19:43 +0300 (MSK) X-Mailer: Mail/@ [v2.42 FreeBSD] From: =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= (aka Andrey A. Chernov, Black Mage) X-Class: Fast Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/bin/mv mv.1 mv.c Lines: 20 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk In message <199602191828.FAA10270@godzilla.zeta.org.au> Bruce Evans writes: >>> $ touch a b;mv -fi a b >>> $ >>...which violates the standard. Since the `i' flag is given last, it >>is the one which must be obeyed. >That's right. FreeBSD's mv has always violated the standard. Wolfram >fixed it, but the changes were backed out so it's broken again. Wolfram, can you restore your POSIX-conformant changes? Nobody means back out _all_ changes, only suspicious ones. -- Andrey A. Chernov : And I rest so composedly, /Now, in my bed, ache@astral.msk.su : That any beholder /Might fancy me dead - http://dt.demos.su/~ache : Might start at beholding me, /Thinking me dead. RELCOM Team,FreeBSD Team : E.A.Poe From "For Annie" 1849