cvs commit: src/share/man/man4 umass.4

[David O'Brien]

On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 07:18:51PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> I don't think it makes much sense to symlink wildly different
> programs to the same name, in particularly not when that name
> has serious historical luggage and is used in some number of
> highly magic scripts.

"disklable" is no longer a program, so I don't buy this.  This is EXACTLY
why I tried to step in and write the 'disklable' wrapper rather than
intrust you to it.  As I know you don't give a shit about users.  I've
used NetBSD on enough different system to know what a total PITA it is
when very different to prepare disks for use across different platforms.


> I think disklabel should print a message to stderr, pointing people
> to the likely choice of program and exit with an error code.

No, it should DTRT for the platform it runs on.  FreeBSD from day one has
had the "disklabel" name be the single command a sysamdin needs to know.
 

> If somebody wants to write a program which can truly and transparently
> handle all platforms partitioning needs, he is of course more than
> welcome to do so, but unless the user interface matches the historical
> use of disklabel, he should still call it something sensibly different
> from "disklabel".

Bullshit, when I tried to do this, you wrote me back a flame and ran to
Core.


> What David might think about this does not concern me much.

What's new??

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-- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)