From owner-freebsd-standards Mon Jul 22 14:50:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-standards@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C411837B40E; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 14:50:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5FD043E67; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 14:50:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.12.3/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g6MLoXqw042601 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Mon, 22 Jul 2002 17:50:34 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g6MLoXZI042598; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 17:50:33 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 17:50:33 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <200207222150.g6MLoXZI042598@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Jens Schweikhardt Cc: Johan Karlsson , standards@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: add option '-t tty' to biff(1)/mesg(1) In-Reply-To: <20020722222405.A8193@schweikhardt.net> References: <20020722201541.B23363@numeri.campus.luth.se> <20020722222405.A8193@schweikhardt.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG < 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