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Re: ar "zero" flag



On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 02:26:50PM -0700, Jason Thorpe wrote:
>> Yes. I had no idea it supported it until I started looking in to this
>> whole issue, since I've never used it even once. It is even spec'ed in
>> POSIX:
>
> Yah, I knew it existed historically, just figured that it was long-since 
> tossed into the dustbin of "why bloody-well bother?"

Because it's all too rare for anyone to get up and say that something
is useless and should be deprecated. Much less ever actually remove it.

-- 
David A. Holland
dholland%netbsd.org@localhost


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