On 28.08.2012 19:32, Mark Miesfeld wrote: > On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 10:19 AM, Chip Davis <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 8/28/2012 08:46 Rony G. Flatscher said: >>> Just did that and saw that you yourself had not done that vote up. >> I had not bumped the RFE because I wanted to initiate a discussion > Actually I think Rony meant Michael had not bumped up his own RFE, but > that's not that relevant. > >> about the implementation of it, first. Specifically, Michael >> suggested a flag to indicate that every file should be returned. >> >> My point was that "return every file" should be the default behavior, >> and that the interface could use flags, RE's, wildcards, arguments, or >> whatever, to indicate something less than every file was desired. >> >> I know the "backwards compatibility" argument will be raised, but the > But what about "backwards compatibility?" > > I agree with you that the reasonable default for the "S" flags would > have been all files. But it wasn't implemented that way on Unix-like > systems. It's been that way for a long time, probably forever. If we > suddenly changed the behavior, programs like the ones Michael has > already written and has been using would no longer produce the same > results. > > Is that okay to do just because the original default wasn't reasonable? > > That's the question I'm interested in. This is an interesting question!
What, if one just regards the current behaviour on Unix systems to be a (long standing) bug, rather than a RFE? :) ---rony ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Oorexx-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel
