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Re: snapshot in a few hours


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: snapshot in a few hours
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2009 12:29:38 -0600
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According to Jim Meyering on 9/4/2009 12:11 PM:
> Or maybe even add a hidden (three hyphen ---no-inotify, since we presume
> it'll be used only for testing) option to expose that behavior without
> the requirement to jump through build-time hoops.
> 
> What do you think?

We've done undocumented three-hyphen options before, and I think it works
well.  It can't interfere with option abbreviation, which is a plus, and
anything that gives more testsuite coverage without recompilation is
generally a good thing.

- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             address@hidden
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