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Date:      Wed, 15 Dec 1999 01:47:41 +0100 (CET)
From:      Andrzej Bialecki <abial@webgiro.com>
To:        "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
Cc:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM>, obrien@NUXI.com, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/chown Makefile
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.20.9912150142100.6917-100000@mx.webgiro.com>
In-Reply-To: <199912150021.QAA20295@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>

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On Tue, 14 Dec 1999, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:

> > :
> > :So, do we need to wait until the perfect solution until any progress
> > :can be made at all?  The place that I suspect most folks trip across
> > :the chown problem is when making new device nodes for disk devices.

> >     I would solve this problem by adding options to 'mknod' to allow the
> >     user & group to be specified, and leaving chown where it was before.

Why do you all insist on tweaking the whole OS to play by MAKEDEV rules,
instead of trying to invent a way to reduce its dependancy on external
tools? IMVHO all of the needed functions are already part of libc, so it
makes sense to do it in C instead of /bin/sh.


Andrzej Bialecki

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