From: Zoltan Hidvegi <hzoli@cs.elte.hu>
To: A.Main@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Zefram)
Cc: A.Main@dcs.warwick.ac.uk, zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: options shenanigans in pre4
Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 00:01:40 +0200 (MET DST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199607272201.AAA14022@bolyai.cs.elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9805.199607272148@stone.dcs.warwick.ac.uk> from Zefram at "Jul 27, 96 10:48:54 pm"
> On a related matter, I suggest you re-examine the status of -1 and -C
> (PRINT_EXIT_VALUE and NO_CLOBBER). In pre4, -C returned to being
> PRINT_EXIT_VALUE in the zsh option set, though zshoptions(1) claims
Oops, I confess I did not notice that.
> that -C is always NO_CLOBBER. If this is due to me having merged the
> change into my option patch incorrectly, I apologise. Either the
Yes it is.
> documentation or the code needs to change, and I suggest that changing
> the documentation would be preferable (as -C has traditionally been
> PRINT_EXIT_VALUE in zsh, and it's NO_CLOBBER in the ksh option set
> anyway).
But I do not like this ambiguity. I do not think that many people used -C
for PRINT_EXIT_VALUE. It just creates confusion when a bash-junkie tries
set -C than accidently looses /etc/passwd because he forgot a >.
Zoltan
prev parent reply other threads:[~1996-07-27 22:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-07-26 22:53 Zefram
1996-07-26 23:35 ` Zefram
1996-07-27 21:01 ` Zoltan Hidvegi
1996-07-27 21:48 ` Zefram
1996-07-27 22:01 ` Zoltan Hidvegi [this message]
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