Date: Sat, 11 Jul 1998 21:18:03 -0400 (EDT) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> To: Charles Youse <cyouse@artemis.syncom.net> Cc: Bakul Shah <bakul@torrentnet.com>, joelh@gnu.org, dchapes@ddm.on.ca, rminnich@Sarnoff.COM, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Improvemnet of ln(1). Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980711211244.10970p-100000@sasami.jurai.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96.980711151056.8399B-100000@artemis.syncom.net>
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On Sat, 11 Jul 1998, Charles Youse wrote: > Obviously this guy is on crack. "Adding a warning to stderr is gonna > break things! Why can't we just leave it alone instead of effecting > massive change?!?" You -will- break things if you alter the default behavior. As you are not able to prove for -all- cases that this change will not break things it should be only enabled by a new switch. (-w as someone suggested) Besides, creating a link to a non existent directory is not cause for an error condition; you get the error when you attempt to reference the link. This is the correct unix behavior, to assume that you know what you're talking about. If you want to have unix perform sanity checks, there are flags for that as well. Add this as a new flag please. > I'd hate to see what FreeBSD would be like if everybody had that > mentality. Linux /* Matthew N. Dodd | A memory retaining a love you had for life winter@jurai.net | As cruel as it seems nothing ever seems to http://www.jurai.net/~winter | go right - FLA M 3.1:53 */ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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