On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 09:31:31AM +0100, Song Li wrote:
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> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Marc Espie <espie@nerim.net> wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 07:43:31AM +0100, Song Li wrote:
> >> What seems a little counter intuitive to me is: I would see sd0 as a
> >> shortcut of /dev/sd0 for fdisk, but "fdisk /dev/sd0" does not work.
> >
> > It's not, as miod pointed out.
> >
> > Is it something you tried to "deduce" on your own ? or some misinformation
> > you found in a manpage/webpage somewhere ? if there is a typo in our
> > documentation that actually says "fdisk /dev/sd0", we would like to know
> > about it...
> >
> 
> The man page for fdisk matches the actual OS. There is no typo.
> 
> On the other hand, IMHO, a system should allow its user's reasonable
> assumption. It would be a headache for everyone if we have to memorize
> the exact syntax for every single command.

isn't that's what man pages are for?

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> Maybe it's more so for other desktop friendly OS like FreeBSD and
> Linux but not so true for OpenBSD, which does not have a high priority
> for easy use.

what?!?!?!?!?!  if that is *your* assumption, then of course it won't be
easy for *you*, because *you* think it is hard, before *you* even start.

oh, right, you're talking about making it easy for people who don't want
to have to know/learn anything.  that's not OpenBSD's focus, and if that
is what you expect from an OS, OpenBSD probably isn't for you.

 At any rate, you are much more experienced and should be
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> able to make better judgment than on how it should work. You can just
> ignore my two cents and I will respect its current design -- it must
> have many merits waiting for me to appreciate ...

but what is your point?  that people should just be able to guess at
commands and the system should do whatever the user is thinking it will
do?

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> Best,
> 
> Song

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