From owner-freebsd-current Tue Sep 26 14:04:14 1995 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id OAA22253 for current-outgoing; Tue, 26 Sep 1995 14:04:14 -0700 Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id OAA22245 for ; Tue, 26 Sep 1995 14:04:08 -0700 Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; (5.65/1.1.8.2/19Aug95-0530PM) id AA14987; Tue, 26 Sep 1995 17:01:32 -0400 Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1995 17:01:32 -0400 From: "Garrett A. Wollman" Message-Id: <9509262101.AA14987@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: Terry Lambert Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kernel versions and config's rm -rf In-Reply-To: <199509262032.NAA08219@phaeton.artisoft.com> References: <199509260943.TAA28830@godzilla.zeta.org.au> <199509262032.NAA08219@phaeton.artisoft.com> Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk < said: >> >The number of PTY's is one example of a compile time option that the >> >resulting code depends upon. >> >> It's also an example of an option for which the dependencies are handled >> perfectly. > So why does the 'config' process delete the directory? It doesn't on my machines... I believe that it is fundamentally broken to have config(8) even capable of blowing a directory away like that. Unfortunately, I have consistently lost that argument. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant