From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 22 16:40:24 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91BE516A4CE; Sun, 22 Feb 2004 16:40:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp4.server.rpi.edu (smtp4.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BB4B43D1D; Sun, 22 Feb 2004 16:40:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp4.server.rpi.edu (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i1N0eNHQ021198; Sun, 22 Feb 2004 19:40:23 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: 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> Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 19:40:22 -0500 To: Colin Percival , Wes Peters From: Garance A Drosihn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/nologin Makefile nologin.c X-BeenThere: cvs-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the entire tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 00:40:24 -0000 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