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From: Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com>
Subject: Re: [9fans] How to move to rc from sh/bash
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:25:01 -0500
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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The only advantage to getflags is that we can say

	rcsrcipt -xy

instead of

	rcscript -x -y

which is why I use it in my 12 script.

On Feb 11, 2008, at 6:03 PM, Martin Neubauer wrote:

> * erik quanstrom (quanstro@quanstro.net) wrote:
>> i would think that the reason to do this would be for consistency.  i
>> don't know that that's a compelling argument.  but i can see the
>> attraction of all or nothing; it would be nice if either none of the
>> scripts used getflags or all of them did.
>>
>> - erik
>
> That's actually quite compelling to me. I'd be just in favour of
> some kind
> of `lazy evaluation' (if some script needs to be changed, put in
> getflags;
> ditto for new ones.) And I admit that if one is really tght pressed
> on space
> (which might still happen nowadays, if not nearly as often than a
> couple of
> years ago) it won't really matter havin to put in some effort to
> customise
> what's in /bin/rc. I'm still amused by the argument that getflags
> is faster,
> though.
>
> 	Martin
>