On Thursday, 28 January 1999 at 5:48:31 +0200, Robert Nordier wrote: > Greg Lehey wrote: > >> On Wednesday, 27 January 1999 at 14:38:23 -0500, Mike O'Dell wrote: >>> >>> just for a calibration, >>> i asked Dennis Ritchie his opinion of "the right behavior" >>> >>> his comment about posix might be the trump card, although >>> i'd like to see chapter and verse if that's the case. >>> >>> ------- Forwarded Message >>> >>> MessageName: (Message 47) >>> From: d...@plan9.bell-labs.com >>> Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 14:30:59 -0500 >>> To: m...@servo.ccr.org >>> >>> Well the research systems from v7 (just looked) through Brazil >>> produce no diagnostic. So much for "should." >>> >>> Irix complains, suppressible with -f. I wonder if it's in posix? >>> >>> Dennis >>> >>> ------- End of Forwarded Message >> >> On Wednesday, 27 January 1999 at 15:04:38 -0500, Garrett Wollman wrote: >>> <<On Wed, 27 Jan 1999 14:38:23 -0500, "Mike O'Dell" <m...@servo.ccr.org> >>> said: >>> >>>> i asked Dennis Ritchie his opinion of "the right behavior" >>> >>> The right behavior of what? >>> >>> -GAWollman >> >> On Wednesday, 27 January 1999 at 15:59:13 -0500, Mike O'Dell wrote: >>> >>> i asked his notion of the right behavior of "rm" >> >> Well, between you and dmr, you manage to remain completely obfuscated. >> How about including some of the previous history? >> >> Are you talking about whether rm without -f will fail when it can't do >> its job? Even that doesn't seem to make much sense. > > This relates to a thread on -stable "rm with no arguments" and was > probably posted to -current by mistake. > >> COMPATIBILITY >> The rm utility differs from historical implementations in that >> the -f option only masks attempts to remove non-existent >> files instead of masking a large variety of errors.
Ah, yes, that makes sense. Amazing what a bit of context does, eh? Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger g...@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
