[26327] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux 9.3.18: add
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Mon Jan 24 22:18:58 2005
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
To: Jacob Morzinski <jmorzins@mit.edu>
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Yeah, unfortunately, the implementation of "add -a" makes it difficult
to correctly handle variations of add which don't attach lockers (add
/path, add -r locker, etc.). add_main() doesn't know how to parse
attach's options to find the lockername arguments (or their absence), so
it has to call attach_main(), which then attaches the locker or displays
the locker list or whatever. Fixing this problem will require
refactoring attach's main loop to separate option parsing from
execution.
Given that weakness, specifying add_flags in root's dotfiles has its
plusses and minuses. I think the plusses outweigh the minuses.
