re: CVS commit: src

[matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>]

     * egrep, fgrep were links This is in violation of GNU standards:
       "Please don't make the behavior of a utility depend on the name used
       to invoke it.  It is useful sometimes to make a link to a utility with
       a different name, and that should not change what it does."
       For now egrep and fgrep will be copies of grep. A better scheme
       should be found later.
       After discussion with Tom Tromey <tromey%cygnus.com@localhost>.


well, for many cases, i *expect* a binary to change depending on
it's called named, eg, grep.  if i renamed it egrep, i'd expect
it to work as egrep.  but now that is broken.

   
   There's even the command-line arguments -E -F and -G to override this,
   so you can link to funnygrep and call "funnygrep -E" to get an egrep.

these options (or others like them) have been around for a long time.


you'd think that they'd at least install 2 shell scripts that did the
right thing...  mmm, GNU...