From owner-freebsd-current Tue Dec 15 00:54:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA03894 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 00:54:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ocean.campus.luth.se (ocean.campus.luth.se [130.240.194.116]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA03889 for ; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 00:54:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se) Received: (from karpen@localhost) by ocean.campus.luth.se (8.9.1/8.9.1) id JAA16330; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 09:50:17 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from karpen) From: Mikael Karpberg Message-Id: <199812150850.JAA16330@ocean.campus.luth.se> Subject: Re: HEADS UP : laptop power-down change In-Reply-To: <199812150734.AAA12910@usr06.primenet.com> from Terry Lambert at "Dec 15, 98 07:34:08 am" To: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert) Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 09:50:17 +0100 (CET) Cc: mike@smith.net.au, tlambert@primenet.com, imp@village.org, current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG According to Terry Lambert: > > > Also, I think the correct flag is "-x", not "-p", from a historical > > > (Sony NeWS, NeXTStep, and A/UX, et. al.). > > > > That's a good point; now is probably the time to change it to be > > consistent. Any conflicting examples? > > Apparently NeXTStep uses "-p". Time for a survey. 8-(. Is it really a problem? Just make "-p" AND "-x" mean power off, and people can chose the one they like. :-) /Mikael To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message