Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 02:40:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/7265: A warning flag is added to ln(1). Message-ID: <200107110940.f6B9e2A46673@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/7265; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.org> To: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org> Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/7265: A warning flag is added to ln(1). Date: 11 Jul 2001 02:32:47 -0700 > I found this pr quite funny, but it hit me that the real solution is > not a patch to ln. It's right there in the how to repeat: You have a good point there. However, the original idea got shot down because adding a message was determined to be unsafe. It is possible that others may deem changing an existing message to be unsafe. You may want to discuss the idea with -hackers. Feel free to cc me on that discussion; I'm not presently subscribed to -hackers. joelh -- Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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