[BusyBox] bug#1052: obsolete option

Matt Kraai kraai at alumni.carnegiemellon.edu
Thu Oct 19 21:29:37 UTC 2000


On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 02:45:15PM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote:
> On Thu Oct 19, 2000 at 01:30:47PM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote:
> > Howdy,
> > 
> > According to the source of GNU tail, the -<number> option format is
> > obsolete.  And, furthermore, it is a pain to parse.  Given that busybox
> > head doesn't even make an attempt, and that there is a simple workaround
> > (-n), and that it will make the argument parsing code ugly, I'd like to
> > remove support for this option altogether.
> > 
> > All opposed?
> 
> All in favor?
> "Aye"
> 
> The Ayes have it.

So committed.

Matt





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