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From: Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net>
Subject: Re: bin/35201: link and unlink are not SUSv2-compliant as the manpage states
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The following reply was made to PR bin/35201; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net>
To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>
Cc: Tim Robbins <tim@robbins.dropbear.id.au>,
	bug-followup@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: bin/35201: link and unlink are not SUSv2-compliant as the manpage states
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 16:22:14 +0200

 On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 04:20:12PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
 > 
 > 
 > On Fri, 22 Feb 2002 16:18:52 +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
 > 
 > > The whole point of these alternatives to ln/rm is that they have a
 > > simple, optionless interface.  :-(
 > 
 > Bleh, what an entirely useless response. :-)
 > 
 > I should have gone on to say...
 > 
 > However, standards conformance is probably important, even here.  If
 > scripts expect 'link -- foo bar' to work, and yet it breaks in FreeBSD,
 > that'll be bad.
 
 I agree with that; and IMHO, since these utilities are really *not*
 expected to do any options parsing, we should just accept Tim's
 original patches, even as they avoid getopt(3).
 
 G'luck,
 Peter
 
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