Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Thu, 31 May 2001 12:33:00 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Jim Pirzyk <Jim.Pirzyk@disney.com>
Cc:        Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>, Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de>, Jim Pirzyk <pirzyk@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/bin/rcp rcp.c util.c
Message-ID:  <20010531123300.E7502@dragon.nuxi.com>
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>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 09:44:29AM -0700, Jim Pirzyk wrote:
> 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.

WAY too complicated for such a simple thing.  I just removed
"SUPPORT_DOT" from -current.  This is 2001, it is time to follow POSIX.
 
-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)

To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20010531123300.E7502>