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Date:      Tue, 26 Jan 1999 19:28:06 +0100
From:      Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com>
To:        Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
Cc:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Small, useful tools (Was: Re: 'cpdup' program, and question)
Message-ID:  <19990126192806.A68626@titan.klemm.gtn.com>
In-Reply-To: <199901261814.UAA50298@greenpeace.grondar.za>; from Mark Murray on Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 08:14:16PM %2B0200
References:  <26964.917370498@critter.freebsd.dk> <199901261814.UAA50298@greenpeace.grondar.za>

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On Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 08:14:16PM +0200, Mark Murray wrote:
> Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> > >Examples: more is a subset of less
> > 
> > Isn't our current "more" actually and older version of "less" ?
> 
> Easily possible.
> 
> > ><asbestos>
> > >For other small bits-of-code, there is my old favourite, tcp_wrappers
> > ></asbestos>
> > 
> > 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.
> > <Trigger Who="Jordan" Keyword="New package system">  As things stand
> > I think it is better left as a port.
> 
> Tcp_wrappers are small enough to bmake directly. Trivial job.

I'd second this with respect to FreeBSD getting an entry
in the ,hall of fames' of "Ultra secure" BSD's ;-)

-- 
Andreas Klemm                                http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/~andreas
     What gives you 90% more speed, for example, in kernel compilation ?
          http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/~fsmp/SMP/akgraph-a/graph1.html
             "NT = Not Today" (Maggie Biggs)      ``powered by FreeBSD SMP''

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