56 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-stableRe: tail| From | Sent On | Attachments |
|---|---|---|
| Chris Byrnes | Apr 29, 2001 9:24 pm | |
| Juha Saarinen | Apr 29, 2001 9:29 pm | |
| David W.Chapman Jr. | Apr 29, 2001 9:31 pm | |
| Christopher Schulte | Apr 29, 2001 9:32 pm | |
| Mike Tancsa | Apr 29, 2001 9:33 pm | |
| Dan Langille | Apr 29, 2001 9:34 pm | |
| Juha Saarinen | Apr 29, 2001 10:04 pm | |
| Chris Byrnes | Apr 29, 2001 10:07 pm | |
| Juha Saarinen | Apr 29, 2001 10:08 pm | |
| Kris Kennaway | Apr 29, 2001 10:12 pm | |
| David W.Chapman Jr. | Apr 29, 2001 10:15 pm | |
| Mike Meyer | Apr 29, 2001 10:15 pm | |
| Ted Faber | Apr 29, 2001 10:21 pm | |
| Juha Saarinen | Apr 29, 2001 10:55 pm | |
| Juha Saarinen | Apr 29, 2001 10:55 pm | |
| Juha Saarinen | Apr 29, 2001 10:58 pm | |
| David W. Chapman Jr. | Apr 29, 2001 11:04 pm | |
| Steve O'Hara-Smith | Apr 29, 2001 11:20 pm | |
| Mike Meyer | Apr 29, 2001 11:30 pm | |
| Juha Saarinen | Apr 29, 2001 11:53 pm | |
| Juha Saarinen | Apr 29, 2001 11:53 pm | |
| Mike Meyer | Apr 29, 2001 11:58 pm | |
| Jordan Hubbard | Apr 30, 2001 12:00 am | |
| Juha Saarinen | Apr 30, 2001 12:11 am | |
| Jordan Hubbard | Apr 30, 2001 12:18 am | |
| Mike Meyer | Apr 30, 2001 12:23 am | |
| Andre Goeree | Apr 30, 2001 12:33 am | |
| Valentin Nechayev | Apr 30, 2001 1:03 am | |
| Valentin Nechayev | Apr 30, 2001 1:18 am | |
| Raymond Wiker | Apr 30, 2001 1:54 am | |
| David Malone | Apr 30, 2001 2:13 am | |
| Kal Torak | Apr 30, 2001 2:24 am | |
| Panagiotis Astithas | Apr 30, 2001 2:33 am | |
| Oliver Fromme | Apr 30, 2001 5:03 am | |
| Donn Miller | Apr 30, 2001 6:23 am | |
| Rodney W. Grimes | Apr 30, 2001 8:43 am | |
| Ted Faber | Apr 30, 2001 9:00 am | |
| Chris Byrnes | Apr 30, 2001 9:08 am | |
| Arthur W. Neilson III | Apr 30, 2001 11:41 am | |
| Donn Miller | Apr 30, 2001 11:53 am | |
| Sue Blake | Apr 30, 2001 12:35 pm | |
| Juha Saarinen | Apr 30, 2001 12:43 pm | |
| Lyndon Nerenberg | Apr 30, 2001 12:48 pm | |
| Lyndon Nerenberg | Apr 30, 2001 12:53 pm | |
| Dan Langille | Apr 30, 2001 1:01 pm | |
| Fred Gilham | Apr 30, 2001 1:39 pm | |
| Juha Saarinen | Apr 30, 2001 2:02 pm | |
| Chad R. Larson | Apr 30, 2001 6:27 pm | |
| Steve O'Hara-Smith | Apr 30, 2001 10:29 pm | |
| Jano Lukac | Apr 30, 2001 10:37 pm | |
| Jordan Hubbard | May 1, 2001 12:16 am | |
| Doug Russell | May 1, 2001 2:22 am | |
| Doug Russell | May 1, 2001 4:28 am | |
| Matthew Hunt | May 1, 2001 9:36 am | |
| Christian Chen | May 2, 2001 12:33 am | |
| Oliver Fromme | May 2, 2001 2:55 am |
| Subject: | Re: tail | |
|---|---|---|
| From: | Oliver Fromme (ol...@secnetix.de) | |
| Date: | Apr 30, 2001 5:03:28 am | |
| List: | org.freebsd.freebsd-stable | |
Juha Saarinen <ju...@saarinen.org> wrote:
Is there any use for the the garbage tail outputs on a directory? If there is, I won't say anything else...
Just recently the feature that directories can be opened and read like plain files has been very helpful for me, when I was debugging the union mount code and the getdirentries() code in the libc (which, by the way, reads the directory like a plain file and then returns the dirent structures contained in it).
You can cat plain text files, binary files, fifos, device nodes -- why should there be a special hack to disallow it for directories?
As for the "garbage on screen": Type "cat /kernel". That's much worse. But it does what you asked it to do, and that's how UNIX works, because it assumes that you know what you're doing. Everything else would lead into the area of Windows philosophy ...
Just my 2 Euro cents.
Regards Oliver
-- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way.
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