On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 7:20 PM, Michael McConville <[email protected]> wrote: > Of course, this breaks existing scripts that used the -a option - > they'll just get the usage prompt. It will fail more dangerously > (silently) with scripts intended for old-style tapes, so (if I > understand correctly) it should probably go in "Following -current" and > the release notes.
I don't see any benefit to breaking scripts that use the -a option. Optimally, behavior of dump(8) should only change if a user has specified *none* of the following flags: -a -B -c -d -s A user who has specified any of the above flags presumably knows what they want, and shouldn't have things changed out from under them. -ken
