Subject: Re: What happened to "envstat -r"?
To: Alan Barrett <apb@cequrux.com>
From: Juan RP <juan@xtrarom.org>
List: current-users
Date: 07/17/2007 15:13:20
On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 14:55:05 +0200
Alan Barrett <apb@cequrux.com> wrote:
> 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.
Module Name: src
Committed By: xtraeme
Date: Tue Jul 17 13:12:47 UTC 2007
Modified Files:
src/usr.sbin/envstat: envstat.8 envstat.c
Log Message:
Add the -r flag, which is a dummy flag... only added for compatibility
reasons.
To generate a diff of this commit:
cvs rdiff -r1.20 -r1.21 src/usr.sbin/envstat/envstat.8
cvs rdiff -r1.34 -r1.35 src/usr.sbin/envstat/envstat.c
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