Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 19:57:05 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> To: obrien@FreeBSD.org Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/bin/mkdir mkdir.1 mkdir.c Message-ID: <199908290257.TAA60778@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <19990828150926.A71681@dragon.nuxi.com> from "David O'Brien" at "Aug 28, 1999 03:09:26 pm"
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> > > Log: > > > add verbose flag > > > > Why???? Are you planning to add this to every command. What purpose > > does this serve, or what problem does it work around? > > Would you prefer I commit src/contrib/fileutils? Answering a question with another question is not going to help things here, and your answer seems to be a bit inflamitory. -v is not compatible with gnu fileutils. So I don't buy this as a valid reason that we should have a -v on our mkdir. What does posix.2 say about commands having additional options that are not in the standard? For some reason gnu decided this should only be a --verbose option on mkdir, but a -v and --verbose where added to rm and cp, go figure.... I did not check all of fileutils 4.0, just these few. Usage of -v in scripts will make them non-portable, adding features that cause loss of portability IMHO is always a bad idea. Using features, even at the command line, causes users/programmers to be non portable. -- Rod Grimes - KD7CAX - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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