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From: Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP: consistent Gentoo tool names
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 21:16:28
Message-Id: 1079644582.2906.25.camel@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP: consistent Gentoo tool names by Donnie Berkholz
1 On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 12:07, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
2 > On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 05:46, Karl Trygve Kalleberg wrote:
3 > > On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 02:30:37PM -0500, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
4 > > "this wrapper will print a warning, sleep 5 seconds, then run
5 > > the tool from its new location."
6 > >
7 > > Of course, it won't do that if the tools aren't invoked with
8 > > an active TTY. Otherwise, scripts using the tool would break,
9 > > (say wrt piping/redirection).
10 > >
11 > > Furthermore, the wrapper must preserve the return status of
12 > > the wrapped tool.
13 > >
14 > > But I guess all of this is just too obvious to mentioned
15 > > explicity in the GLEP itself;)
16 >
17 > That's for the coming sample implementation section.
18 >
19 > Thanks for the comments though.
20
21 Take a look at the attached sample.
22
23 Donnie
24 --
25 Donnie Berkholz
26 Gentoo Linux

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