Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 22:33:41 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, jonathan+freebsd-hackers@hst.org.za Subject: Re: find -lname and -ilname implemented Message-ID: <20080225203341.GA4150@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <20080223.164806.-674897155.imp@bsdimp.com> References: <200802232322.45288.jonathan%2Bfreebsd-hackers@hst.org.za> <20080223.164806.-674897155.imp@bsdimp.com>
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On 2008-02-23 16:48, "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote: > In message: <200802232322.45288.jonathan+freebsd-hackers@hst.org.za> > Jonathan McKeown <jonathan+freebsd-hackers@hst.org.za> writes: > : Yes, where it makes sense. I'm not at all convinced that this change makes as > : much sense as you obviously think it does - especially given that it doesn't > : add previously unavailable functionality, and that we have a ports system > : which includes a patch stage for dealing with this sort of gratuitous > : non-portability in ported applications. > > The change absolutely makes sense, and so far none of the arguments > against it are really worth the time to respond to. I'm using > packages not in the ports system. Frankly, the more gratuitous > differences with the gnu tools we have, the harder the sell will be > for companies wanting to replace their Linux systems with FreeBSD > ones. The changes I made were absolutely trivial in the scheme of > things. > > This knee-jerk reaction against gnu find functionality baffles me. > The changes are trivial and make FreeBSD more compatible. It is such > an obvious no-brainer that I frankly didn't expect anybody to bat an > eye. So should I expect similar knee-jerk reactions to the just committed `finger compatibility' option to implement du -l for hardlinks? I think there *is* value in making things `less hard' for the user who migrates from Linux, as long as the cost of implementing the compatibility `shims' is not humongous. I'm completely baffled by the reactions to the recent find changes :/
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