From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Apr 30 0:34: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dagobert.skystream.nl (smtp.uwnet.nl [195.7.130.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEC6337B423 for ; Mon, 30 Apr 2001 00:34:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from abgoeree@uwnet.nl) Received: from dyn.dailup.c227140085.isd.to (dyn.dailup.c227140085.isd.to [213.227.140.85]) by dagobert.skystream.nl (8.11.3/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f3U7aGL27920 for ; Mon, 30 Apr 2001 09:36:17 +0200 Received: (qmail 1277 invoked by uid 1000); 30 Apr 2001 07:33:59 -0000 From: "Andre Goeree" Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 09:33:59 +0200 To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tail Message-ID: <20010430093359.A1271@mandark.attica.home> Reply-To: abgoeree@uwnet.nl References: <20010429221233.A99057@xor.obsecurity.org> <15085.4860.848971.308268@guru.mired.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <15085.4860.848971.308268@guru.mired.org>; from mwm@mired.org on Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 02:23:40AM -0500 X-Sender: abgoeree@uwnet.nl Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 02:23:40AM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: > Juha Saarinen types: > > :: UNIX is about doing what you ask for. You want to tail/cat a > > :: directory, who is the system to tell you otherwise. > > > > That's just silly. > > > > Who hasn't mistakenly tailed/cat'ed a directory? > > > > I thought the "User-unfriendliness Is Cool" era was long buried. > > User-unfriendliness Is Cool is indeed buried. Deciding that the user > shouldn't do something because you don't think it's a good idea is > User-unfriendly, which is why Unix doesn't *do* things like that. > > -- > Mike Meyer http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ > Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > I'm sorry, but what the heck has this thread to do with -stable? -- Andre. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message