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SubjectRe: GNU/Linux stance by Richard Stallman
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
> >
> > Just did. A ok.
> >
> > %^)
> >
> > Who's to say what's in a binary executable? The overhead of
> > implementing a usage message is negligible. In fact, the only excuse
> > for *not* putting them into small binaries is...code size?
> > nope...complexity? nope...efficiency? nope...laziness? Bingo.
> >
> > Think again Mr T.
> >
>
> 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.

well, not according to GNU. At least it's documented:

`true' does nothing except return an exit status of 0, meaning
"success". It can be used as a place holder in shell scripts where a
successful command is needed, although the shell built-in command `:'
(colon) may be faster.

Any arguments are ignored, except for a lone `--help' or `--version'
(*note Common options::.).

-- arvind

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