On 13 September 2012 12:21, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > Raimundo Santos пишет: > >> On 13 September 2012 11:53, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> even if you all considered assuming -A is good for the superuser, >>> where on Earth is the opposite option that cancels -A effect?! >>> >> >> I am assuming that you are using your system a lot under root account. > > > if you are right then i must notice this pitfall long ago. > which is opposite to the reality. >
Well, sorry on this... I just can not see another situation where the few dot files I ever seen under root account do some noise. But I also think it is a question of point of view. > >> In other ways, why in the Earth you really need to disable this? I >> think it is easy to disable the option in source code, but why? > > > On the contrary! > it is not easy to disable an option that is not stated on the command line. Well, just try it! :) On the other side, I do not see why this behavior is maintained. Just for historical reasons? I do not like this kind of argument so much, mainly when it does no much sense. For historical reasons we can put a note in the man page. -- -------------------------------------------- Raimundo A. P. Santos Bacharelando em Informática ICMC - USP
