On 25 April 2013 22:56, Eitan Adler <[email protected]> wrote: > On 25 April 2013 22:50, Brooks Davis <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 10:16:32PM -0400, Eitan Adler wrote: >>> Anyone have thoughts on the following? >>> >>> commit 82c78ba923d8ce4a1bfbb309658c49021c8bb384 >>> Author: Eitan Adler <[email protected]> >>> Date: Thu Apr 25 22:14:49 2013 -0400 >>> >>> Take some improvements from DragonFlyBSD: >>> - add const where appropriate >>> - add static where appropriate >>> - fix a whitespace issues >> >> The no-op changes look more correct to me. >> >> I think the -x option seems a bit odd. What is the use case? At a >> first thought, it seems to raise more questions than it resolves. > > It goes along with cp -x, find -x, and others. > > Quick example #1: You have /usr/ports /usr/ports/distfiles as > different mount points it lets you wipe /usr/ports without wiping your > distfile cache. > > Quick example #2: You have /usr/src/ null mounted in every user's > /home/ and you want to wipe one home directory.
I just realized that this is a poor example because /usr/src/ is likely read-only, but the idea stands. -- Eitan Adler _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
