From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (list@euclid.skiles.gatech.edu [130.207.146.50]) by melb.werple.net.au (8.7.5/8.7.3/2) with ESMTP id IAA23674 for ; Sun, 28 Jul 1996 08:22:17 +1000 (EST) Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA26921; Sat, 27 Jul 1996 18:02:23 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Sat, 27 Jul 1996 18:02:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Zoltan Hidvegi Message-Id: <199607272201.AAA14022@bolyai.cs.elte.hu> Subject: Re: options shenanigans in pre4 To: A.Main@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Zefram) Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 00:01:40 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: A.Main@dcs.warwick.ac.uk, zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu In-Reply-To: <9805.199607272148@stone.dcs.warwick.ac.uk> from Zefram at "Jul 27, 96 10:48:54 pm" Organization: Dept. of Comp. Sci., Eotvos University, Budapest, Hungary Phone: (36 1)2669833 ext: 2667, home phone: (36 1) 2752368 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL16 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Resent-Message-ID: <"_umBE.0.Ya6.k7f-n"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1798 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu > 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