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To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/bin/rm rm.c 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 25 Feb 1999 23:28:23 EST."
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Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 20:55:06 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>
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> > 	-f 	Do not prompt for confirmation.  Do not write diagnostic
> > 		messages or modify the exit status in the case of 
> > 		non-existent operands.  Any previous occurrences of the
> > 		-i option shall be ignored.
> 
> Note that it doesn't say anything about command-line syntax errors.

The filename doesn't qualify as a "non-existent operand?"  If you
don't see that as a valid case then you must be splitting hairs at the
atomic level and I think we can get back to more important issues now.

The fact that Solaris and Linux behave the way we do now is enough for
me to say "defacto standard, end of story" in any case.  Who cares
about being "right" if it also makes you unique?

- Jordan


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