Lennart Poettering <mzerqung(a)0pointer.de> wrote:
On Thu, 22.07.10 12:06, Dave Airlie (airlied(a)redhat.com) wrote:
[...]
> Wow thats pretty special... both an option called realize and a
> argument, that won't get confusing no matter how long it lives, also
> realize doesn't seem to be conveying a useful meaning, I'm a native
> speaker and I'm not sure what you actually mean by realize in this
> context.
>
> I'm going with:
>
> to make real; give reality to (a hope, fear, plan, etc.).
>
> but its seems quite an abstract term to associate reality with an
> abstract computer object.
Well, I am not a native speaker. We were looking for a verb that
basically means "make this take effect immediately".
i.e. the "enable"/"disable" commands makes some changes for the next
time they are looked at, and then adding --realize on top makes those
changes take effect immediately, i.e. so that the unit is start/stopped
according to those changes. We actually used "--start=" first (which
however is very confusing when you'd write "disable --start" to disable
something and then have it stop...) We then considered "--now", because
it is not a verb.
What is wrong with that? "enable --now" and "disable --now" read right
(to
me at least).
But eventually we stuck with --realize. It's
not
great, yes. But we couldnt think of anything better. Happy to take
suggestions. But no, --take-effect-immediately is not really an option.
What do other commands use for "do it now" (instead of "later")?
Perhaps
the ubiquitous "-f/--force" will do?
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