Matthew Woehlke wrote: > all of which should probably be symlinks to/copies of one program > that changes default behavior based on its argv[0].)
No, please don't. It means that programs change their behavior based upon their names. When a the program is copied or renamed it no longer works the same. Having been burned by that myself it is now one of my pet peeves. http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/User-Interfaces.html#User-Interfaces 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. Instead, use a run time option or a compilation switch or both to select among the alternate behaviors. Bob _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
