[illumos-Developer] Review 1116,1208, 1154

Gary Mills mills at cc.umanitoba.ca
Thu Jul 14 12:29:00 PDT 2011


On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 02:49:07PM -0400, Gordon Ross wrote:
> 
> If the change required some real work, then it might make sense to
> allow the long-option stuff to come later.  But this appears to be
> almost trivial, so why not do it while adding the "quiet" (-q) option
> in the first place?
> 
> Further, have people on the dev. list agreed about adding the -q option?
> (i.e. do you have your "functional specification"?:)

My opinion is that `-q' with or without `--quiet' is fine, but I
wouldn't like to see `--quiet' as the first long option only.
Adding long synonyms for all the short options is fine too.

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-Gary Mills-        -Unix Group-        -Computer and Network Services-



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