small bug in who(1) of SVR3

Sean Eric Fagan sef at kithrup.COM
Sun Jan 13 08:59:11 AEST 1991


In article <18896 at rpp386.cactus.org> jfh at 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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