From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 7 4:20:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BB2737B417 for ; Fri, 7 Dec 2001 04:20:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=tanya.raggedclown.net) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16CJzX-000Gm1-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 07 Dec 2001 12:20:36 +0000 Received: by tanya.raggedclown.net (tanya.raggedclown.net, from userid 500) id 028E8111F; Fri, 7 Dec 2001 13:20:35 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 13:20:34 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Modifying only certain bits with chmod Message-ID: <20011207122034.GC31193@raggedclown.net> References: <20011206155151.A572@northernbrewer.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.24i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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