In message <4982CBC7.5050102_at_FreeBSD.org>, Maxim Sobolev writes: >Tim Kientzle wrote: >> Any concerns about this? > >Given the age of mtree(8) I guess there are lot of existing mtree specs >out there who rely on this behavior. Therefore, IMHO the right thing to >do would be either note this in the documentation and let it be, or mark >"time" keyword as depreciated and add some new keyword for example >"timestamp". The new keyword will be generated by default by mtree(8) >instead of "time" and will do the right thing. Then, in few years from >now "time" could be deorbited. This is way overkill. We are not in the business of rococo decoration. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk_at_FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.Received on Fri Jan 30 2009 - 09:10:48 UTC
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