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List:       freebsd-standards
Subject:    Re: bin/35201: link and unlink are not SUSv2-compliant as the manpage states
From:       Peter Pentchev <roam () ringlet ! net>
Date:       2002-02-22 14:22:14
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On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 04:20:12PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
> 
> 
> On Fri, 22 Feb 2002 16:18:52 +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
> 
> > The whole point of these alternatives to ln/rm is that they have a
> > simple, optionless interface.  :-(
> 
> Bleh, what an entirely useless response. :-)
> 
> I should have gone on to say...
> 
> However, standards conformance is probably important, even here.  If
> scripts expect 'link -- foo bar' to work, and yet it breaks in FreeBSD,
> that'll be bad.

I agree with that; and IMHO, since these utilities are really *not*
expected to do any options parsing, we should just accept Tim's
original patches, even as they avoid getopt(3).

G'luck,
Peter

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