Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 17:50:33 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> To: Jens Schweikhardt <schweikh@schweikhardt.net> Cc: Johan Karlsson <johan@FreeBSD.ORG>, standards@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: add option '-t tty' to biff(1)/mesg(1) Message-ID: <200207222150.g6MLoXZI042598@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <20020722222405.A8193@schweikhardt.net> References: <20020722201541.B23363@numeri.campus.luth.se> <20020722222405.A8193@schweikhardt.net>
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<<On Mon, 22 Jul 2002 22:24:05 +0200, Jens Schweikhardt <schweikh@schweikhardt.net> said: > As long as the options don't conflict and there is consensus about the > usefulness you are okay. Note that the options on this page are only the > POSIX mandated ones -- FreeBSD may already have more than those. But also keep in mind that POSIX may, at some future date, standardize a different function using the same option letter. The `-W' option is reserved for implementation use, but is rather cumbersome to use in practice. (That's where SysV cc's `-Wl,', `-Wp,', etc., options came from.) It's possible to pre-empt this process somewhat by making sure FreeBSD extensions are at least standardizable, so that if someone proposes a `-Q' option to some utility, we can come back and say, ``We already have that feature and called it `-b' which is much more logical.'' -GAWollman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-standards" in the body of the message
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