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From:
Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>
Subject:
Re: tog(1) log by default++
To:
gameoftrees@openbsd.org
Date:
Thu, 20 Feb 2020 22:06:33 -0000

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On 2020-02-20, Stefan Sperling <stsp@stsp.name> wrote:

> I do understand why you want this. But from a maintainer's perspective
> I am not a fan of this hack. This special case introduces side effects
> that are not very straightforward to contain. I'd rather avoid the
> ambiguity and force people to type the command they want to run because
> this makes it easier to provide reasonable behaviour when errors occur.

It also introduces an ambiguity if "log" is a path.

(Personally, I dislike this sort of magic like the boot(8) hack
where any unknown command is tried as a kernel to boot.)

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de