Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 11:30:49 -0500 (EST) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> To: Mark Valentine <mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk> Cc: cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/bin/expr expr.1 expr.y src/include unistd.h src/lib/libc/gen Makefile.inc check_utility_compat.3 check_utility_compat.c Message-ID: <200210281630.g9SGUnMb040700@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <200210280953.g9S9rpwZ059414@dotar.thuvia.org> References: <mailpost.1035764725.47755@thuvia.demon.co.uk> <200210280953.g9S9rpwZ059414@dotar.thuvia.org>
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<<On Mon, 28 Oct 2002 09:53:51 GMT, Mark Valentine <mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk> said: > The /etc/compat-FreeBSD-4-util symlink feature of this function is too > dangerous - it will break any scripts run anywhere on the system which > expect the default behaviour. No, it will only break those scripts which *require* the POSIX behavior. As I have told you about ten times now, the intersection of the two (in the case of `expr' in particular) is large enough, and the syntax of `expr' so restricted, that most scripts should not care. -GAWollman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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