From owner-freebsd-standards Mon Dec 31 6:30:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-standards@freebsd.org Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E36AA37B42F for ; Mon, 31 Dec 2001 06:30:14 -0800 (PST) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.11.4/8.11.4) id fBVEUBp99435; Mon, 31 Dec 2001 09:30:11 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 09:30:11 -0500 (EST) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <200112311430.fBVEUBp99435@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Joe Halpin Cc: "standards@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: at utility changes In-Reply-To: <3C307398.5A83DEE4@attbi.com> References: <3C200BBA.9D26ED93@attbi.com> <20011228031537.B99161@espresso.q9media.com> <3C2DF35D.1F54BBC3@attbi.com> <20011229153328.D99161@espresso.q9media.com> <20011230102138.GJ69365@daemon.ninth-circle.org> <20011230130404.A78954@colnta.acns.ab.ca> <3C307398.5A83DEE4@attbi.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG < said: > "XSI Users shall be permitted to use at if their name appears in the > file /usr/lib/cron/at.allow. I think this falls under our historical precedent, ``when the standard is wrong, ignore it''. This is clearly out-of-scope for POSIX, and snuck in with the SUS unification. We're unlikely to get UNIX branding for a whole bunch of reasons, so implementing this particularly broken pathname seems like a bad move. If you feel like, you can add it as a compile-time option.... -GAWollman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-standards" in the body of the message