Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 11:50:26 +0000 (GMT) From: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> To: Anthony Atkielski <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Modifying only certain bits with chmod Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.31.0112071147320.11244-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20011206155151.A572@northernbrewer.com>
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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 :-) jan * Principle Of Least Astonishment -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk "NOP" is a trivial implementation of an executable Z subset. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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