Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 13:20:34 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Modifying only certain bits with chmod Message-ID: <20011207122034.GC31193@raggedclown.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.31.0112071147320.11244-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> References: <20011206155151.A572@northernbrewer.com> <Pine.GSO.4.31.0112071147320.11244-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk>
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On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 11:50:26AM +0000, Jan Grant wrote: > On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Christopher Farley wrote: > > > Anthony Atkielski (anthony@freebie.atkielski.com) wrote: > > > > > Cliff writes: > > > > > > > If Mr Atkielski's change is genuinely compatible > > > > with existing chmod, and has been tested even > > > > under the most pathological situations, then > > > > he should submit it as a PR or whatever as an > > > > improved version. > > > > > > How do I do that? > > > > man send-pr > > > > There's also a web interface at freebsd.org. > > You might want to package it up as a port; the real reason to keep > "traditional" behaviour in system utilities is called "POLA"* - you want > to keep your sysadmin skills reasonably portable. killall is probably > the biggest culprit in this regard :-) > Ahh I sense a man who has worked on Solaris. -- Regards Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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