On 06/28/2012 04:48 PM, Steven Lowson wrote: > Hi Guys, > > I would like to propose a change to one of the rmdir flags specifically > --ignore-fail-on-non-empty to something a bit more succinct. A more > suitable name would be -force or -f.
Thanks for the suggestion. However, we're unlikely to burn a short letter without existing precedence in some other implementation, since that risks collisions with future standardization. But do you realize that long options can be abbreviated if the abbreviation is unambiguous? Therefore, 'rmdir --i' is equivalent to 'rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty', which is almost as good as your proposed 'rmdir -f' and shorter than your proposed 'rmdir --force'. -- Eric Blake [email protected] +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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