Subject: Re: misc/5713: New flag for lp
To: Klaus Klein <kleink@ira.uka.de>
From: D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy@druid.net>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 07/07/1998 12:08:53
Thus spake Klaus Klein
> darcy@druid.net writes:
> > The SVR4 lp command takes a -s option to specify that symlinks should
> > be used rather than copying. Under NetBSD, this is the default. By
> On SVR4 (and UNIX98 systems), the `-s' flag actually means `silent
> operation', rather than `symlink', so the appropriate addition to the
> lp wrapper script would be to recognize and ignore it.
Hmm. I was going by Linux. That'll larn me. In fact, your solution
will deal with both emulations since the default under NetBSD is to
use symlinks anyway.
Shall I PR it?
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