[26819] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux 9.4.26: add
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Mon Apr 10 15:35:13 2006
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This is a known bug; root runs with default add flags of "-a -h -n"
which causes command-line add flags to be parsed as attach flags, rather
than add flags. Possible fixes include creating some kind of end
delimiter for the -a add flag, or making default add flags parse after
command-line flags rather than before. (But the latter option may have
some of its own issues.)
However, we've treated this as low priority because we don't encourage
people to do day-to-day work as root.
