20 Jan
2017
20 Jan
'17
8:29 p.m.
On Fri, 20 Jan 2017, Joerg Schilling wrote:
Random832 <random832(a)fastmail.com> wrote:
I blame GNU rather than the Linux people. GNU are just as much masters of
"embrace, extend, exterminate" as Microsoft.
I've thought of trying to build a "GNUless" Linux distribution with a
purer Unix feel, but I get hung trying to step myself through the process.
-uso.
I think his assertion is that he personally had
originally learned the
command as "mkdir --parents" [which was and is GNU-only], and had to
change to spelling it "-p" when going to non-linux systems, along with
some unspecified behavior differences.
This is why I call Linux a system that tries to establich a vendor lock in.
Man pages could have been written in a way that makes it obvious that --parents
is non-portable, but they rather encourage people to learn gnu long options.
Jörg