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bug#18648: rm -f with no file operands fails on old BSD systems
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Philip Guenther |
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bug#18648: rm -f with no file operands fails on old BSD systems |
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Mon, 6 Oct 2014 20:00:12 -0700 |
On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 7:51 PM, Richard Hansen <address@hidden> wrote:
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> Digging around in various CVS/Subversion repositories, it looks like
> there are many old (but perhaps not yet museum-worthy) *BSD versions
> that behave this way:
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> * NetBSD 4.x and older (5.0 released April 2009). see: [1] [2]
> * FreeBSD 3.1.x and older (3.2 released May 1999). see: [3] [4]
> * OpenBSD 2.x and older (3.0 released Dec 2001). see [5]
Speaking on behalf of the OpenBSD project: OpenBSD 2.x should be
considered dead, buried, rotted, and worthy of derision. History is
history: useful to study, but if you try to live there you will die of
horrific diseases. Do not hold up progress on the basis that you'll
trip over a 12+ year old release.
Philip Guenther
address@hidden