Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 4 Apr 1999 20:11:35 -0400 | From | Arvind Sankar <> | Subject | Re: GNU/Linux stance by Richard Stallman |
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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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