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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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  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-02-13 22:43 UTC|newest]

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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