Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 19:40:22 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk>, Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/nologin Makefile nologin.c Message-ID: <p0602046cbc5efbce2d6a@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <6.0.1.1.1.20040222230357.03ca6ec0@imap.sfu.ca> References: <200402221003.i1MA3PW0024791@repoman.freebsd.org> <6.0.1.1.1.20040222133540.03c296b0@imap.sfu.ca> <200402221500.38486.wes@softweyr.com> <6.0.1.1.1.20040222230357.03ca6ec0@imap.sfu.ca>
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At 11:14 PM +0000 2/22/04, Colin Percival wrote: >At 23:00 22/02/2004, Wes Peters wrote: >>Wow. Did you read the reams of bikeshedding that have taken >>place on this very topic before jumping into this? > > Yes, I did. And I posted to -current, saying "this is what >I'm planning on doing, does anyone object?". And nobody objected. > >>Don't be surprised if the anti-code-bloat legions call for a >>backout. > > As bde has already pointed out (by private email), it's not clear >why nologin is in /sbin anyway. My memory fails me. Wasn't there some specific reason that nologin is statically-linked? At this point, most programs in /sbin are not statically-linked. It seems to me I should remember this, but I'm operating on very little sleep at the moment... -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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