On Saturday 13 May 2006 10:04, Matthew Toseland wrote: > exit? I would like that much better.
Thanks Ed > On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 05:55:09PM -0500, David Sowder (Zothar) 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). > > >>>> > > _______________________________________________ > > Devl mailing list > > Devl at freenetproject.org > > http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl > > >
