Date: Sun, 2 Apr 1995 09:49:08 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: MBONE interfaces and snazzy install tools. Message-ID: <199504020749.JAA06459@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <12432.796783580@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Apr 1, 95 04:46:20 pm
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As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > Sure, but I doubt that file modes (including the ones set by chflags) > > and errors can be handled in 2 lines of anything. Don't forget to > > install /tmp with perms 1777 (cp -pR botches the 1000 flag). Don't > > forget to install /kernel and libc.so with flag schg. > > Ok, ok, so it's a 20 like PERL script. It's still smaller! :-) Perl doesn't know about file flags, unfortunately. (This would break perl's abstraction of system independency. File flags are a 4.4BSD matter.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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