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Date:      Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:25:41 -0400
From:      Tim Vanderhoek <vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca>
To:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
Cc:        Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/ac ac.8 ac.c
Message-ID:  <19990702112541.A76481@mad>
In-Reply-To: <199907021451.KAA03598@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>; from Garrett Wollman on Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 10:51:03AM -0400
References:  <199907021231.FAA80300@freefall.freebsd.org> <199907021451.KAA03598@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>

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On Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 10:51:03AM -0400, Garrett Wollman wrote:
> 
> >   Back out previous commit. Allowing `-' as a pseudonym for /dev/stdin is
> >   legacy behaviour inherited from systems that don't have /dev/stdin.
>   
> >   Requested by:	bde
>   
> I'm sorry, BDE is wrong.

Agreed, bde is wrong.  It's okay to let the code to what
the user wants once in a while, instead of forcing the user to do
what the code wants.

Hell, bring it under the flag of "legacy compatibility hack", if you
really want.  :-)


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