On 5/13/06, Caco Patane <cacopatane at gmail.com> wrote:
> What about SHUTDOWN in capital letters, and if it's entered normally a
> warning that it should be on capital letters?
>
> Is there any CAPS LOCK fan?
>
> Saludos,
> Caco_Patane <!>
>
> On 5/12/06, David Sowder (Zothar) <freenet-devl at david.sowder.com> wrote:
> > Ed Tomlinson wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Quite frankly to have an application stopped by the same  command that 
> > > stops your OS
> > > is dangerious.  Over the years I have been bitten by this sort of buglet 
> > > a few times...
> > >
> > Mind you, I've only checked MS Windows XP, Mac OS X and Debian Linux
> > (many share the same program though I believe), I haven't found a common
> > OS that shuts down by issuing a "shutdown" command with no arguments.
> > Perhaps you could fill me in?  What would you suggest instead of
> > "shutdown" considering that it's the most obvious and "quit" is the most
> > common for what it does?
> > > On Friday 12 May 2006 09:18, David Sowder (Zothar) wrote:
> > >
> > >> Ed Tomlinson wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> HI
> > >>>
> > >>> Please revert this.
> > >>>
> > >>> its OK that quit exits in TCMI.  Its not a problem.  Its a good thing.
> > >>>
> > >>> This fix just confuses things.
> > >>>
> > >>> Its not a good idea.
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >> And I would argue the opposite.  QUIT should not mean different things
> > >> in different contexts if we can easily help it.  Different meanings
> > >> leads to use out of habit giving you a result you didn't expect, in this
> > >> case it would be node shutdown.  Imagine using the socket interface a
> > >> lot and then using the direct console for some reason, typing QUIT and
> > >> going to lunch; your node would be shutdown unintentionally until you
> > >> noticed at some point.   Obviously, this is up for discussion in the
> > >> group, but I'm unclear how this change confuses anything.
> > >>
> > >> Admittedly, QUIT used to be the command to shutdown in either
> > >> environment, but that was changed a couple of weeks ago and I believe
> > >> the current arrangement is much more logical and consistent with other
> > >> applications.
> > >>
> > >>> On Thursday 11 May 2006 22:43, zothar at freenetproject.org wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>> Author: zothar
> > >>>> Date: 2006-05-12 02:43:18 +0000 (Fri, 12 May 2006)
> > >>>> New Revision: 8672
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Modified:
> > >>>>    trunk/freenet/src/freenet/node/Node.java
> > >>>>    trunk/freenet/src/freenet/node/TextModeClientInterface.java
> > >>>> Log:
> > >>>> This should make a few interface elements more consistent: 'QUIT' just 
> > >>>> plain isn't a command in direct TMCI console mode rather than having a 
> > >>>> different meaning there than on a network socket, display the running 
> > >>>> node's build number and SVN revision number consistently everywhere 
> > >>>> (and now also in the logs on start up).
> > >>>>
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In all my years on *nix I've never seen any distribution that shut
down on just plain shitdown, it always needed -h now too.

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