Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 10:29:17 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, phk@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Please review: fdisk -e -> -I Message-ID: <20000303102917.D12352@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <200003022043.NAA17997@harmony.village.org> References: <200003022033.NAA17898@harmony.village.org> <200003022043.NAA17997@harmony.village.org>
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On Thursday, 2 March 2000 at 13:43:17 -0700, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <200003022033.NAA17898@harmony.village.org> Warner Losh writes: >> Given that OpenBSD had the -e flag to fdisk first, and that it means >> edit there and that disklabel -e means edit, I'd like to apply the >> following patch to -current before it becomes 4.0. If we wait, we'll >> have compatibility problems. Right now it is too easy to shoot >> yourself in the foot with this. >> >> When this was hashed out here, the idea was met with wide spread >> support, even fiven the advanced nature of the freeze. I take that >> support to mean that this is something that would be a good idea to do >> for 4.0. >> >> Comments? > > I hate to follow up my own post. It would appear that -e was added > before 3.3R went out the door. Given that, I think the patch should > look more like the following: I'm still in favour. It's probably worth mentioning the difference in the man page. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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