Re: GNU/Linux stance by Richard Stallman

Agus Budy Wuysang (supes@theOffice.net)
Mon, 05 Apr 1999 18:51:11 +0700

"H. Peter Anvin" wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Apr 04, 1999 at 11:10:57PM +0000, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > > Followup to: <19990404155740.A4657@hazel.buici.com>
> > > By author: Oscar Levi <elf@buici.com>
> > > In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> > > >
> > > It's BROKEN -- it breaks the semantics of true(1) and false(1), which
> > > among other things is that they ignore any arguments. Hence it is a
> > > BUG.
> >
>
> GNU is broken.
>
> -hpa

true(1) is NOT broken, it returns 0 with --help & --version
argument...

false(1) however is (returns 0 with --help & --version).

BUT if one uses true(1) other than to examine its exit status,
eg. to create empty file, it is broken...

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