Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 18:53:23 +1200 From: "Juha Saarinen" <juha@saarinen.org> To: "Mike Meyer" <mwm@mired.org> Cc: "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org>, "Chris Byrnes" <chris@jeah.net>, <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: tail Message-ID: <KPECIILENDDLPCNIMLOFIEOLCCAA.juha@saarinen.org> In-Reply-To: <15085.1672.680397.456359@guru.mired.org>
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:: The real issue is why should a command raise an error for no good :: reason. Either a kernel panic or a message is a bit extreme just :: because a user issued a command that someone else thinks is :: unusual. Until you can prove that there is no use for the output of :: tail on a directory, adding code to tail to generate an error in that :: case is silly. If you are a typist with 100% accuracy, there is of course no need for any error handling in any program. Is there any use for the the garbage tail outputs on a directory? If there is, I won't say anything else... -- Juha To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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