Post #2341563
2026-05-03 12:49 UTC
@dsw@mastodontech.de Except it's “umount” because the mental energy required to remember to leave out the “n” is less than the physical energy required to press just press the damn key, especially on an ASR33. /s
(Actually, last time I made a comment about this I was told that the reason was that very very early Unixes limited command lengths to 6 characters. There are two interpretations of the word “backward” in the phrase “backward compatibility”.)
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@dsw@mastodontech.de 2026-05-03 16:02
@edavies@functional.cafe @kamstrup@fosstodon.org this is indeed correct and would not work without a corresponding alias. As far I can see, there are several rumors for the missing n, like the one you mentioned. However, I did not find any evidence for the correct story behind.