Re: [MI non-stop 06/11, RFA/RFC] Report non-stop availability, and allow to enable everything with one command.

Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-08-12T12:09:17Z

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 10:09:11AM +0400, Vladimir Prus wrote:
> My motivation was that the most intuitive model is that of
> immediate application of non-stop flag, with error produced
> immediately. This is hard to implement.
>
> Next most intuitive model is "I prefer non-stop mode", which is
> what I propose.

Actually I think this is very unintuitive. You'll have to know
whether you get non-stop or not because commands act very differently
between all-stop and non-stop. Scripts written for the one won't work
with the other, for example.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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