[2139] in Athena Bugs
xhost changes user interface
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Mon May 1 16:07:25 1989
Date: Mon, 1 May 89 16:06:38 EDT
From: Jonathan I. Kamens <jik@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: xbugs@expo.lcs.mit.edu
Cc: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Apparently, the decision was made in X11R3 to change the user
interface of the xhost program so that it prints out an "action" line
after each xhost command, i.e. "<hostname> being added to access
control list."
That's all fine and good, but it would be nice if the man page
mentioned as obvious a user interface change as that. I use xhost in
background processes and I don't care to be notified when a machine is
added to my access control list in such processes. Granted, it's easy
for me to fix, but it would have been easier if I'd known what to
expect.
Even if it were *not* a user interface change from X11R2, the man page
should still mention any diagnostic messages such as those.
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