> >Please don't. This functionality is extremely useful. Consider this: > > It may be useful but it is nonstandard.
FreeBSD mostly follows standards. But there are several examples of FreeBSD *not* following standards because the standards are considered broken. In this particular case - I consider the FreeBSD behavior far more *useful* than the alternative. (For those of you with long memories: SunOS used to have the same behavior as FreeBSD currently does. This changed sometime around SunOS 4.1.2/4.1.3, and caused a lot of grief at the time. Let's not make the same mistake with FreeBSD, just because some people claim it's more standards conformant.) Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
