Subject: Re: uugetty for NetBSD
To: None <current-users@NetBSD.ORG>
From: der Mouse <mouse@Holo.Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
List: current-users
Date: 10/29/1996 15:11:58
>>> a version he did that does the locking only if called as `uugetty'
>>> rather than `getty.'  What do you think of this?
>> Personally?  I don't like things that mutate based on argv[0].
> Haven't looked at at/atq/atrm/batch or chsh/chfn/chpass or.... ?  :-)

I know/knew about chsh/chfn/chpass.  I don't like them, but
chsh/chfn/etc all accept options that allow you to override the
behavior implied by argv[0] - or at least the ones I've looked at do,
and I'd hope NetBSD's does.  "man chsh" gives me the manpage for
chpass, which does not mention chsh as far as I can see, but I do see a
-s option.

at/atq/atrm I didn't know about.  If they don't have options to
override the operation implied by argv[0], then no, I don't like them
either in this respect.

					der Mouse

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