From owner-cvs-all Thu Feb 25 21:46:57 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from ren.detir.qld.gov.au (ns.detir.qld.gov.au [203.46.81.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 727BA14DFC; Thu, 25 Feb 1999 21:45:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from syssgm@detir.qld.gov.au) Received: by ren.detir.qld.gov.au; id PAA19005; Fri, 26 Feb 1999 15:44:09 +1000 (EST) Received: from ogre.detir.qld.gov.au(167.123.8.3) by ren.detir.qld.gov.au via smap (3.2) id xma018920; Fri, 26 Feb 99 15:43:47 +1000 Received: from atlas.detir.qld.gov.au (atlas.detir.qld.gov.au [167.123.8.9]) by ogre.detir.qld.gov.au (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA09361; Fri, 26 Feb 1999 15:43:47 +1000 (EST) Received: from nymph.detir.qld.gov.au (nymph.detir.qld.gov.au [167.123.10.10]) by atlas.detir.qld.gov.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA14751; Fri, 26 Feb 1999 15:43:45 +1000 (EST) Received: from nymph.detir.qld.gov.au (localhost.detir.qld.gov.au [127.0.0.1]) by nymph.detir.qld.gov.au (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA19787; Fri, 26 Feb 1999 15:43:43 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from syssgm@nymph.detir.qld.gov.au) Message-Id: <199902260543.PAA19787@nymph.detir.qld.gov.au> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: jkoshy@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Cc: syssgm@detir.qld.gov.au, Garrett Wollman Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/bin/rm rm.c References: <6152.920004906@zippy.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: <6152.920004906@zippy.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Thu, 25 Feb 1999 20:55:06 -0800" Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 15:43:43 +1000 From: Stephen McKay Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Thursday, 25th February 1999, "Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote: >> > -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. "non-existent operands" refers to file names specified on the command line that turn out not to exist when rm attempts to remove them. Garrett is right. >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? This is a more convincing argument to me than adherence to a theoretical specification. I'm less interested in following POSIX slavishly, and more interested in general Unix compatibility. But, is that the official FreeBSD position? Stephen. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message