From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Nov 19 10:17: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from blackhelicopters.org (geburah.blackhelicopters.org [209.69.178.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D693537B418; Mon, 19 Nov 2001 10:17:03 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mwlucas@localhost) by blackhelicopters.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fAJIGvU92838; Mon, 19 Nov 2001 13:16:57 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mwlucas) Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 13:16:57 -0500 From: Michael Lucas To: setantae Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG, peter@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What's the point in joy(8) ? Message-ID: <20011119131656.A92804@blackhelicopters.org> References: <20011119173740.GA69190@rhadamanth> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011119173740.GA69190@rhadamanth>; from setantae@submonkey.net on Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 05:37:40PM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I suspect that this is somewhat like the existence of /usr/sbin/linux and linux(8). You might check the mailing list archives for a discussion some time ago about the merits of this sort of thing. IIRC, such a discussion consumed copious bandwidth some time ago. (Sorry, I don't remember when... been reading FreeBSD mail for about six years now, and am getting a little fuzzy on names and dates and suchforth.) On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 05:37:40PM +0000, setantae wrote: > > Is there any point whatsoever in joy(8) and it's manpage existing ? > > They're not even referenced by the manpage for joy(4). > > For those who don't know what I'm on about, /usr/bin/joy is a shell > script consisting of the shebang line, the CVS tag line and the words > ``kldload joy''. > > Can someone kill it ? > > (Sorry if I'm meddling in the affairs of dragons here. > I freely admit that the only reason I don't like it is because it's > ugly *and* unnecessary - ugly on it's own would be ok ;) > > Ceri > > -- > keep a mild groove on > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ Big Scary Daemons: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message