[25461] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux 9.2.25: /usr/athena/bin/gathrun
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Thu Jan 22 12:59:44 2004
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
To: Chris Toepel <ctoepel@mit.edu>
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Thanks for reporting this.
On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 15:49, Chris Toepel wrote:
> 1) EITHER
> The Usage should be changed in the script's case 0 and in the man
> page to look like this:
> Usage: gathrun locker [program [args ...]]
Will do.
> OR
> The script should be improved to check for the the second argument
> as a program name:
I don't think this would be an improvement. "gathrun foo bar" should
have exactly one meaning, not two radically different meanings depending
on whether "bar" exists as a binary in locker "foo".
> 2) The call to gdialog should have size parameters >0, such as:
> gdialog --msgbox "..." 1 1
Will do.
> 3) Finally, the man page prose description makes no explanation of
> argument handling, so this situation should be clarified there
> whether or not the behavior is changed.
I couldn't figure out what to say about the arguments which didn't seem
like a restatement of the blindingly obvious, so I didn't make any
change here.
