Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is udev-mount still valid?

[Floyd Anderson]

On Sat, 14 Apr 2018 17:25:36 -0700
Ian Zimmerman <itz@××××××××××××.org> wrote:
>On 2018-04-15 00:10, Floyd Anderson wrote:
>
>> > https://very.loosely.org/paste/symlinks-pl
>
>> Because argument ROOTDIR is mandatory, the script should do something
>> when ROOTDIR is not given, e.g. print usage. Maybe ‘-r’ should be also
>> mandatory or the script should define some useful defaults. Consider
>> following invocations:
>>
>>    $ ./symlinks-pl
>>    $ ./symlinks-pl /path/to/broken-symlink
>>    $ ./symlinks-pl -r /path/to/broken-symlink
>>
>> which do nothing and results with exit code 0.
>
>I think this is more of a documentation bug in usage().  ROOTDIR is in
>fact not mandatory - a list of zero or more items is expected, and each
>item processed in turn.  I remember thinking about it for a second, and
>this was the most consistent and regular behavior, so the most
>attractive to my droid mind :-P

Then, I think, ROOTDIR in synopsis of `symlinks-pl --help` should be:

    symlinks-pl [OPTION ...] [ROOTDIR ...]

like OPTION instead of:

    symlinks-pl [OPTION ...] ROOTDIR ...

to be more consistent to other command line tools. But I see your point 
and forget to say thanks for sharing. ;-)


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Regards,
floyd