[651] in athena10
Re: attach -e
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Tue Dec 2 16:06:34 2008
Cc: Bill Cattey <wdc@mit.edu>, athena10@mit.edu
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From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Price <price@mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20081202210223.GF10836@vinegar-pot.mit.edu>
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Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 16:05:49 -0500
> On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 03:44:00PM -0500, Bill Cattey wrote:
>> While we're thinking about attach, I'd like to re-ask:
>>
>> Should we find a way to enable the old behavior:
>> detach foo -- makes the binaries I didn't want go away
>> instead of:
>> detach foo -- damn! the binaries are still there.
>> attach -r foo -- damn! I have to re-attach to get this feature.
>> attach foo; attach -r foo -- I WANTED "detach foo"!
>
> `man attach` tells me that -r has no effect for AFS filesystems.
> Is that what you meant? I don't understand what these command
> sequences are intended to accomplish.
That's a typo, Bill meant this:
>
detach foo -- damn! the binaries are still there.
add -r foo -- damn! I have to re-attach to get this feature.
attach foo; add -r foo -- I WANTED "detach foo"!
