On 25 April 2013 22:56, Eitan Adler <li...@eitanadler.com> wrote: > On 25 April 2013 22:50, Brooks Davis <bro...@freebsd.org> wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 10:16:32PM -0400, Eitan Adler wrote: >>> Anyone have thoughts on the following? >>> >>> commit 82c78ba923d8ce4a1bfbb309658c49021c8bb384 >>> Author: Eitan Adler <li...@eitanadler.com> >>> Date: Thu Apr 25 22:14:49 2013 -0400 >>> >>> Take some improvements from DragonFlyBSD: >>> - add const where appropriate >>> - add static where appropriate >>> - fix a whitespace issues >> >> The no-op changes look more correct to me. >> >> I think the -x option seems a bit odd. What is the use case? At a >> first thought, it seems to raise more questions than it resolves. > > It goes along with cp -x, find -x, and others. > > Quick example #1: You have /usr/ports /usr/ports/distfiles as > different mount points it lets you wipe /usr/ports without wiping your > distfile cache. > > Quick example #2: You have /usr/src/ null mounted in every user's > /home/ and you want to wipe one home directory.
I just realized that this is a poor example because /usr/src/ is likely read-only, but the idea stands. -- Eitan Adler _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
