portsnap

Robert Bonomi bonomi at mail.r-bonomi.com
Wed Nov 21 19:58:43 UTC 2012


> From: jb <jb.1234abcd at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: portsnap
> Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 10:43:30 +0000 (UTC)
>
> So, the manual for portsnap(8) is imprecise, actually unfortunate because 
> misleading.

The manual/ manpage for portsnap(8) and its use of 'command' is precise
*and* entirely consistant with roughly 40(!!) years of Unix documentation
history.  (see, for instance, the 'mt' manpage, which existed before
6th Edition Unix.)

And, of course, if one follows/accepts jb's "reasoning", that which follows
the '-c' parameter on a shell invocation is not a command.
nor is that which follows '-exec' on a 'find' invocation.
nor is that which follows the 'exec' command.
`
*snicker*




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