On 11/21/2017 05:01 AM, L A Walsh wrote: > > The idea would be that both could be symlinks to > 'baseN', which would automatically generate the correct output > for either tool. There's no requirement that that the base32 > and base64 tools be removed, it's just that there "should" be no > _need_ to keep the special-case programs.
Except that GNU Coding Standards recommend that we do NOT make behavior dependent on argv[0] unless existing standards require that, so that a user can rename their app but still get the same behavior. -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3266 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org
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