From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1Hl9Zc-0004xY-P9 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 May 2007 16:12:44 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hl9Zb-0004vP-C4 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 May 2007 16:12:43 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hl9ZZ-0004tY-T7 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 May 2007 16:12:43 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hl9ZZ-0004tV-Nw for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 May 2007 16:12:41 -0400 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Hl9SY-0001vW-Jb for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 May 2007 16:05:26 -0400 Received: from [192.168.10.6] (helo=aragorn) by aybabtu.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Hl9SX-0000TD-7b for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 May 2007 22:05:25 +0200 Received: from rmh by aragorn with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Hl9Tl-0004sD-66 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 May 2007 22:06:42 +0200 Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 22:06:38 +0200 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20070507200637.GC3143@aragorn> References: <20070507082135.GA8703@aragorn> <200705072123.08398.okuji@enbug.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200705072123.08398.okuji@enbug.org> Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Microsoft discourages use of Outlook. X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-detected-kernel: Genre and OS details not recognized. Subject: Re: grub-probe without arguments X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 May 2007 20:12:43 -0000 On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 09:23:08PM +0200, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > On Monday 07 May 2007 10:21, Robert Millan wrote: > > I think it would be reasonable to allow grub-probe to work without > > arguments. Any comments? > > Why do you think so? Because it's commonly invoked while debugging. The uninitiated might have some trouble figuring out the right parameter (specialy if they're not debugging themselves, but providing information for someone else to debug e.g. via BTS). > If you want to omit the argument, I think the Unix way is > to default to current dir. I think that would make it even worse, because user might be in a directory that belongs to another filesystem and have no idea what is going on. -- Robert Millan My spam trap is honeypot@aybabtu.com. Note: this address is only intended for spam harvesters. Writing to it will get you added to my black list.