Subject: Re: What happened to "envstat -r"?
To: None <current-users@NetBSD.org>
From: Alan Barrett <apb@cequrux.com>
List: current-users
Date: 07/17/2007 14:55:05
On Tue, 17 Jul 2007, Juan RP wrote:
> I still don't get why do we need -r again to be a dummy flag.

People have scripts that invoke "envstat -r" and parse the output,
and those scripts now fail.  Sure, it's easy to remove "-r" from the
scripts, but I thought NetBSD was an operating system that cared about
backward compatibility.

--apb (Alan Barrett)