Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2012 14:14:06 -0400 From: Jason Hellenthal <jhellenthal@dataix.net> To: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Jonathan McKeown <j.mckeown@ru.ac.za> Subject: Re: Training wheels for commandline (was Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze?) Message-ID: <20120707181406.GA53151@DataIX.net> In-Reply-To: <20120706201721.GB1437@garage.freebsd.pl> References: <CA%2BQLa9B-Dm-=hQCrbEgyfO4sKZ5aG72_PEFF9nLhyoy4GRCGrA@mail.gmail.com> <20120705082857.GB37083@server.rulingia.com> <4FF55864.8040807@FreeBSD.org> <201207051215.44799.j.mckeown@ru.ac.za> <20120706201721.GB1437@garage.freebsd.pl>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Fri, Jul 06, 2012 at 10:17:22PM +0200, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: > On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 12:15:44PM +0200, Jonathan McKeown wrote: > > On Thursday 05 July 2012 11:03:32 Doug Barton wrote: > > > If the new feature gets created, and you don't want to use it, turn it > > > off. No problem. > > > > No. I think this is entirely the wrong way round. If the new feature is > > created and you want it, turn it on. Don't make me turn off something I > > didn't want in the first place. [...] > > This feature is targeted at new users, for whom it is harder to turn on > something they probably don't even know about, than to skilled users to > turn it off. > > If this feature is going to prints quite a few extra lines, let's just > add one more line saying: > > To disable this message run: echo set 31337mode >> ~/.tcshrc > LD_PRELOAD= ... would be more extensible as a library could react to a larger set of already built binaries without modification of the upstream code. And continue to work in the background while the shell drops back to a prompt and does not interupt the user. -- - (2^(N-1)) [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJP+HxuAAoJEBSh2Dr1DU7Wm98H/3bwkVpF80lgEbVo95YMUtqY yn0MY4hOjRrLI95XHO11E0+40gWR8iSDkzcKNODvTL/XrXgYJKRMJH56ZQE1UrKz MidgmhiRHAbwAxXj4MksDKpkENxVRL8n9sbdgwWOh46haSHHGz55jvQys5g6SjhA pEDwmhO+8tjRqfCRtDj6vw+qo4bSsOzot5hbvu39Cyg/9oO5kqZW2sljgPWg3vEr 8verjl2CC3PI3WbiFoI19/2f4w8JySOqYwVuqje7dkZMb+h45ru5+e2jqoIzSsUn eKMmx7HKs3x5IfrXD2IgiwLy6rWAkasVNKUBkx8HJKXtRDr0/UI2JVGJy+uHOUo= =Jshj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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