Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com From: "Wolfgang Rieger" To: Subject: cygwin coreutils-5.3.0-4 rm change breaks Libtool Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 09:56:44 +0200 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <1113356976.4054.ezmlm@cygwin.com> X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.61 (1.212.2.1-2003-12-09-exp) on slox.umweltdata.at X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.61 From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] Sent: Mittwoch, 13. April 2005 03:50 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: cygwin Digest 13 Apr 2005 01:49:36 -0000 Issue 4198 cygwin coreutils-5.3.0-4 rm change breaks Libtool 106161 by: ericblake@comcast.net (Eric Blake) 106164 by: Christopher Faylor 106166 by: Charles Wilson 106167 by: Eric Blake Hi all, sorry if this comment is stupid, I have not at all been involved in system design so far. Anyway, from a user's point of view: commands like rm are intrinsically dangerous since they might destroy something. Therefore I very much prefer that I know what exactly rm will do - typing "rm foo" I would very much prefer just to remove foo, and not, eventually, foo.exe, if this exists and foo does not. Otherwise I would have to think about this, check the directory, etc, which makes work more strenuous and susceptible to mistakes. With commands like stat there is certainly no comparable problem to do extension magics, since you usually do not immediately remove files or links. Wolfgang -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/