From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 17 18:57:36 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF97B1065678 for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 18:57:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dieterbsd@engineer.com) Received: from mailout-us.mail.com (mailout-us.gmx.com [74.208.5.67]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 658E08FC1D for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 18:57:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 14629 invoked by uid 0); 17 Jul 2012 18:32:22 -0000 Received: from 67.206.185.131 by rms-us018 with HTTP Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 14:32:19 -0400 From: "Dieter BSD" Message-ID: <20120717183221.298430@gmx.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Authenticated: #74169980 X-Flags: 0001 X-Mailer: GMX.com Web Mailer x-registered: 0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-GMX-UID: 4sp3cPcV3zOlNR3dAHAh38R+IGRvb0DK Subject: Re: Pull in upstream before 9.1 code freeze? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 18:57:36 -0000 >> Why not create a command wtf(1)? >> > there are really lot of good features that can be made in FreeBSD. > actually good, instead of that crap While this is certainly not the most important improvement that could be made (Fix the PRs!), the proposed wtf command could be useful. And, importantly, putting this functionality into a seperate utility is the correct way to do it. We don't want to add more complexity to the shell for several good reasons (bloat, possiblilty of bugs, slowness after every typo, not the Unix way[1], etc.). [1] "Make each program do one thing well. To do a new job, build afresh rather than complicate old programs by adding new features." http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/ch01s06.html