David Beveridge wrote:
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Robert Arkiletian <robark@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
It's not that bad. This page explains it clearly.
http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/three-levels-of-off
That does describe what it does quite clearly, however, if you did not
read that and tried to assume which did what, it would be easy to get
them wrong.
According to English language, it would have been better to put them
around the other way. However what's done is done and I think it
would be very bad to simply reverse them.
I think it would be more clear, if mask was changed to prohibit.
And perhaps as I suggested earlier, disable could be augmented by "noauto" as well.
This is a "old guy" vs. "new guy" thing, perhaps, people who started with
command line are used to reading documentation and having some idea what things
do before using them. In this case it is auto start being disabled, not the
service. People who only use GUI expect the interface will prevent them from
shooting themselves in the foot.
I do like adding noauto and autorun, and prohibit and allow as synonyms and
preferred usage.
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Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
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the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot
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