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From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5
Subject: Re: small bug in who(1) of SVR3
Message-ID: <1991Jan12.215911.20701@kithrup.COM>
Date: 12 Jan 91 21:59:11 GMT
References: <1991Jan10.130738.10194@unhtel.uucp> <14818@smoke.brl.mil> <18896@rpp386.cactus.org>
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In article <18896@rpp386.cactus.org> jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F Haugh II) writes:
>Perhaps Doug is right - perhaps one command should have one narrowly
>defined purpose.  On the other hand, what is preventing "users" from
>being a simple link to "who -q"?

I was not aware that any version of *nix allowed links, hard or soft, to
allow options to be specified.

If you mean, as I suspect you do, that who examine argv[0] to see what it
should do, well, I guess you're also advocating everything in /bin be the
same program, that only examines argv[0] to find out what it should do.
Right?

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