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Re: Next release (5.3)

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From: Daniel Shahaf <d.s@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: Next release (5.3)
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2016 05:01:02 +0000
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Roman Neuhauser wrote on Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 09:58:49 +0200:
> # schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx / 2016-07-07 10:20:31 -0700:
> > But that's only because I've not worked out a case where I want anything
> > different.  It's too difficult to come up with a categorical answer because
> > it depends whether the user is used to CHASE_BLAH behaviour (I'm not
> > suggesting option-specific behaviour, either).
> 
> Has anyone brought up any realistic (as in: I'm going to use it for
> such-and-such) scenario for these CHASE_FOO-related variations?
> It looks like you're spending energy on something no one has any use for.

Not that I know of.  The behaviour of :A was originally reported as
a bug downstream (debian bug #607615 by Vincent), but that ticket does
not refer to CHASE_*.

Cheers,

Daniel

> -- 
> roman
>

References:
- Re: realpath(3), symlinks, '..' components, and the ':A' word modifier
  - From: Bart Schaefer

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