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Date:      Mon, 04 Oct 2004 18:48:24 +0200
From:      des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=)
To:        "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/bin/rm rm.1 rm.c
Message-ID:  <xzp3c0uxwdj.fsf@dwp.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <20041004.103638.70543632.imp@bsdimp.com> (M. Warner Losh's message of "Mon, 04 Oct 2004 10:36:38 -0600 (MDT)")
References:  <200410041126.i94BQ273055417@repoman.freebsd.org> <20041004.103638.70543632.imp@bsdimp.com>

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"M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> writes:
> I contend that this change is technically flawed.  While it is allowed
> by the standards, I believe we should exit entirely when we hit this
> 'third rail' rather than just ignoring the offending arg.  If it is
> there as a sanity check, and you hit it, you can't assume that the
> rest of the arguments are sane at all.  This is fundamentally
> different than the '.' checks, which do remove the bad args from the
> list and aren't likely the results of an error.

I don't personally object to the behaviour you propose, but it is not
what will be in the standard.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no



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