On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 10:57:53AM -0800, John-Mark Gurney wrote: > Robert Watson wrote this message on Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 09:38 +0000: > > So while I don't have opinions about the implementation details, I think > > what Ruslan is proposing is architecturally the right thing. How to handle > > the command line argument, I don't have an opinion, except that user > > surprise is bad, so a new argument with some compatibility and a warning is > > probably better than changing "-m". > > Why not detect etc as the last component of -m and print a nice little > warning, and then remove /etc from the path? (or adding .. if we end > up with an empty path).. and after a year or so, remove the warning > and the compat code... I doubt people are doing something really crazy > like making foobarbaz a symlink to etc, and depending upon that.. If > they are, they get what the deserve... > Yes, I had the same idea. An updated patch implements this. Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov ru_at_FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committerReceived on Mon Mar 27 2006 - 17:52:04 UTC
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