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"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes:

> Okay, in that post Linus suggests that -M without an argument should be 
> == 100% (1.0), thus avoiding having to mess up the meaning of -M100 as 
> 0.100.  It seems like a really odd thing to have -M100 mean something 
> that's completely out of line with the rest of the meaning.

True, but it might be too late to change that; I suspect people
expect -M to do a bit more than pure renames by now.