Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 20:55:06 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: jkoshy@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/bin/rm rm.c Message-ID: <6152.920004906@zippy.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 25 Feb 1999 23:28:23 EST." <199902260428.XAA29074@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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> > -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. 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? - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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