From owner-cvs-all Tue Jan 26 09:11:13 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA02226 for cvs-all-outgoing; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 09:11:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA02221; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 09:11:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.1/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA26966; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 18:08:18 +0100 (CET) To: Mark Murray cc: Nate Williams , Matthew Dillon , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Small, useful tools (Was: Re: 'cpdup' program, and question) In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 26 Jan 1999 18:57:34 +0200." <199901261657.SAA44931@greenpeace.grondar.za> Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 18:08:18 +0100 Message-ID: <26964.917370498@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk >Examples: more is a subset of less Isn't our current "more" actually and older version of "less" ? > fmt " " " " par >...and I am sure there are more similar examples. > >Rather than writing new code, it may be useful for authors to consider >extending old; As long as the "new" are true supersets of the "old" it makes sense, as in your two examples. > >For other small bits-of-code, there is my old favourite, tcp_wrappers > I think I would support tcp_wrappers in FreeBSD, if it wasn't because our current modus operandi for src/contrib suffers in so many ways. As things stand I think it is better left as a port. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message