From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot-Users] Delete all env vars except read onlys
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:43:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080213224355.C6F7024050@gemini.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 13 Feb 2008 12:13:08 +0100." <m23arxun23.fsf@ohwell.denx.de>
In message <m23arxun23.fsf@ohwell.denx.de> you wrote:
>
> Why not do both? Unix untilities do it sometimes this way: Use an
> interactive check for "scrubenv" but allow "scrubenv -force" not to
> ask. As many of the U-Boot users know Unix, this would follow from
> the "principle of least surprise"...
That would be exactly the other way round, i. e. provide an optional
"-i" argument like "rm *" is doing in Unix.
The default shall be not to ask any questions.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-12 8:44 [U-Boot-Users] Delete all env vars except read onlys Matthias Fuchs
2008-02-12 14:49 ` Stefan Roese
2008-02-12 22:55 ` Wolfgang Denk
2008-02-13 8:21 ` Matthias Fuchs
2008-02-13 8:56 ` Stefan Roese
2008-02-13 9:18 ` Matthias Fuchs
2008-02-13 10:02 ` Markus Klotzbücher
2008-02-13 10:13 ` Stefan Roese
2008-02-13 10:33 ` Markus Klotzbücher
2008-02-13 11:13 ` Detlev Zundel
2008-02-13 12:55 ` Markus Klotzbücher
2008-02-13 12:58 ` Stefan Roese
2008-02-13 22:43 ` Wolfgang Denk [this message]
2008-02-13 22:49 ` Scott Wood
2008-02-13 23:03 ` Wolfgang Denk
2008-02-13 23:04 ` Scott Wood
2008-02-13 23:11 ` Wolfgang Denk
2008-02-15 15:37 ` Detlev Zundel
2008-02-13 22:40 ` Wolfgang Denk
2008-02-13 22:50 ` Scott Wood
2008-02-13 23:05 ` Wolfgang Denk
2008-02-14 5:20 ` Stefan Roese
2008-02-14 7:44 ` Wolfgang Denk
2008-02-15 15:52 ` Detlev Zundel
2008-02-15 16:11 ` Wolfgang Denk
2008-02-15 16:40 ` Wolfgang Denk
2008-02-15 17:12 ` Markus Klotzbücher
2008-02-15 20:27 ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2008-02-20 21:17 ` Matthias Fuchs
2008-02-20 21:30 ` Ulf Samuelsson
2008-02-21 0:04 ` Wolfgang Denk
2008-02-22 12:00 ` Wolfgang Denk
2008-02-18 9:41 ` Martin Krause
2008-03-25 21:10 ` Wolfgang Denk
2008-02-13 22:38 ` Wolfgang Denk
2008-02-12 22:38 ` Wolfgang Denk
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