Mo DeJong wrote:

> I am not sure this is a java-linux question, so feel free
> to flame me, but ...
>
> Does this seem like an error to anyone else?
>
> echo "" > empty
> javac @empty
>
> I would tend to think that this is the same as
> running javac with no arguments, so it should
> display a help message. The current Sun
> implementation of javac does nothing in this case.

But you're *not* running javac with no arguments. No arguments suggests
you don't know the command and want some help - specifying an argument
like "@empty" suggests something very different. BTW, IBM's JDK1.3
compiler behaves the same way.

Nathan


>
>
> What do you think?
>
> Mo DeJong
> Red Hat Inc
>
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