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Re: options shenanigans in pre4

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From: Zoltan Hidvegi <hzoli@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: A.Main@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Zefram)
Subject: Re: options shenanigans in pre4
Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 00:01:40 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: A.Main@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <9805.199607272148@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> from Zefram at "Jul 27, 96 10:48:54 pm"
Organization: Dept. of Comp. Sci., Eotvos University, Budapest, Hungary
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> On a related matter, I suggest you re-examine the status of -1 and -C
> (PRINT_EXIT_VALUE and NO_CLOBBER).  In pre4, -C returned to being
> PRINT_EXIT_VALUE in the zsh option set, though zshoptions(1) claims

Oops, I confess I did not notice that.

> that -C is always NO_CLOBBER.  If this is due to me having merged the
> change into my option patch incorrectly, I apologise.  Either the

Yes it is.

> documentation or the code needs to change, and I suggest that changing
> the documentation would be preferable (as -C has traditionally been
> PRINT_EXIT_VALUE in zsh, and it's NO_CLOBBER in the ksh option set
> anyway).

But I do not like this ambiguity.  I do not think that many people used -C
for PRINT_EXIT_VALUE.  It just creates confusion when a bash-junkie tries
set -C than accidently looses /etc/passwd because he forgot a >.

Zoltan

References:
- Re: options shenanigans in pre4
  - From: Zefram

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