From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Apr 29 23:54: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from vimfuego.saarinen.org (saarinen.org [203.79.82.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 148B237B422 for ; Sun, 29 Apr 2001 23:54:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from juha@saarinen.org) Received: from dendennis.saarinen.org ([192.168.1.2] helo=dendennis) by vimfuego.saarinen.org with smtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Red Hack)) id 14u7ZD-0001sh-01; Mon, 30 Apr 2001 18:53:55 +1200 From: "Juha Saarinen" To: "Mike Meyer" Cc: "Dan Langille" , "Chris Byrnes" , Subject: RE: tail Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 18:53:23 +1200 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <15085.1672.680397.456359@guru.mired.org> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :: 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