From owner-freebsd-current Sat Dec 9 10:32: 5 2000 From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 9 10:32:02 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B708837B401 for ; Sat, 9 Dec 2000 10:32:01 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 22075 invoked by uid 100); 9 Dec 2000 18:32:01 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14898.31393.228926.763711@guru.mired.org> Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 12:32:01 -0600 (CST) To: Garrett Wollman Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Confusing error messages from shell image activation In-Reply-To: <200011241948.OAA64331@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> References: <14876.48112.785320.465213@guru.mired.org> <20001123110828.V18037@fw.wintelcom.net> <14877.65275.744127.863828@guru.mired.org> <200011241948.OAA64331@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Garrett Wollman types: > < said: > > Um - compliance with what, exactly? > IEEE Std.1003.1-1990 et seq. Since no one has bothered to close this PR with a note that this noncompliance is unacceptable, I'm assuming that no one considers it so. Further, it's not clear that FreeBSD can't stay in compliance with an appropriate note in the compliance document. There are other places where FreeBSD doesn't comply with the appropriate standard - packages vs. FHS, for instance. I claim that the benefits of no longer providing grossly inaccurate error message outweigh the relatively minor conformance loss in this case. So would someone commit the thing so that others can share those benefits? Thanks,