Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2005 12:12:13 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, Mark Murray <markm@FreeBSD.org>, obrien@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc group master.passwd Message-ID: <20050609191213.BFD3C5D07@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 09 Jun 2005 07:46:35 MDT." <42A8483B.3070001@samsco.org>
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> Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2005 07:46:35 -0600 > From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> > Sender: owner-cvs-all@freebsd.org > > Mark Murray wrote: > > "David O'Brien" writes: > > > >>>It's not a FreeBSD convention. If the underscore serves no other > >>>purpose than satisfying an OpenBSD convention, it should go. > >> > >>Agreed. > > > > > > Also agreed. > > > > M > > -- > > Mark Murray > > iumop ap!sdn w,I idlaH > > Disagreed. It sounds like OPenBSD has a useful convention. Even though > it's not the traditional FreeBSD way, it still has merit. I also disagree. It's a very useful convention. Just because OpenBSD thought it up first is not a reason for us to use it. Nor does it require converting existing names (or even use it in the future, although I would like to see it. I still miss the old VMS convention that names that include a '$' are reserved unto the system. (Of course, '$' would not be a good convention for a Unix type system.) -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634
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