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I found an older bug report for Debian that sheds a little light on why this behavior is useful: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=308911 http://

by nbpoole 15y ago

I found an older bug report for Debian that sheds a little light on why this behavior is useful: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=308911 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=308911 I can understand not changing the behaviour wrt historical precedent: I have been told that people used to rely on the ignore-dot mechanism to disable things (e.g. mv foo foo.disabled). At the end of the report, you can see they added the --regex flag to allow for user-defined filename validation.

raldi 15y ago
They could at least log the skipping, by default.
- jsprinkles 15y ago
  Shhh! Don't make administrators' jobs easier! How else will we justify our insane salary and benefits? Look at the bright side: this is a few days of debugging and difficult to explain to the people signing your check. Aren't you glad it's there now?
  - kaerast 15y ago
    A few days debugging? How could this possibly take any more than 5 minutes to work out on your own? If it takes a few days then maybe you are in the wrong job.
    - tvon 15y ago
      I think "a few days" was an intentional exaggeration.
- ars 15y ago
  Considering how often these files are run that would make for quite a noisy logfile.