Re: GNU/Linux stance by Richard Stallman

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
4 Apr 1999 23:10:57 GMT


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.

-hpa

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