Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 19:04:38 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.org> To: Jim Pirzyk <Jim.Pirzyk@disney.com> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/bin/rcp rcp.c util.c Message-ID: <20010531190438.A20679@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <01053109442905.00675@brother>; from Jim.Pirzyk@disney.com on Thu, May 31, 2001 at 09:44:29AM -0700 References: <200105301619.f4UGJEo91944@freefall.freebsd.org> <01053108455702.00675@brother> <20010531193716.C46933@sunbay.com> <01053109442905.00675@brother>
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On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 09:44:29AM -0700, Jim Pirzyk wrote: > Yes, also I removed the -DSUPPORT_DOT from the chowm Makefile > and recompiled. What I see in the future is some sort of runtime > configuration to determine if chown is to use the '.' as a group > seperator. Maybe a defaults file /etc/defaults/chown (like SVR4) > or a sysctl variable user.chown.use_dot and the default be the > current behavior, but that in our site, we would change the default. The sysctls are reserved for the kernel, and is only used for non-kernel purposes if it is absolutely convenient. I don't think I'd consider its use for setting behaviour modes for chown as absolutely convenient - that belongs in an environment variable for the single chown instance, not as a global variable, IMO. Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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