Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 11:07:30 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: ache@astral.msk.su (=?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?=), joerg@freefall.freebsd.org, CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-usrsbin@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/tzsetup Makefile main.c tzmenu.c Message-ID: <20041.828299250@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 31 Mar 1996 18:22:18 %2B0200." <199603311622.SAA11793@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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> We have been shipping the system with the symlink for a long time, and > nobody was complaining. > > I don't back this out, the previous version was totally buggy and > happily clobbered files under /usr/share/zoneinfo/ in case the > existing /etc/localtime has already been a symlink. I think this is reasonable. If I'm running single-user with nothing but root mounted, I *expect* some things not to work quite right. I can't run vi very nicely without my /var mounted either, for that matter, and I usually find this far more objectionable than the timezone being set wrong. Am I suggesting that we break vi in order to make such a weird case work? Of course not, and I think the same can be said for localtime as a symlink. I'm backing Joerg on this one. Jordan
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