[881] in Zephyr_Bugs
Re: patch for clients/zctl/zctl.c
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derrick J Brashear)
Fri Aug 1 18:16:27 1997
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 18:16:20 -0400 (EDT)
From: Derrick J Brashear <shadow@DEMENTIA.ORG>
Reply-To: Derrick J Brashear <shadow@DEMENTIA.ORG>
To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bug-zephyr@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <199708012206.SAA19791@scrubbing-bubbles.MIT.EDU>
> I'm not so sure. I regularly make use of the idiom:
>
> % zctl add 'classname * *'
>
> and it would be annoying if it broke.
Hmmm. I never thought of that. I had a bunch of bug reports that zctl add
didn't work as expected; My asusmption was that zctl add takes (up to) three
arguments and should be expected to work in that case.
> I guess you have this desire to do things like:
>
> % zctl add 'afs: Waiting for busy volume 1970596247 in cell
andrew.cmu.edu' \* %me%
>
> or something?
Personally, I've done zctl add someclass '"foo bar"' \* to get around the
problem and never really thought much of it.
> Which of these seems more rational to you?
Someone more objective than me should speak up;-)
-D
