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Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 19:04:38 +0200
From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.org>
To: Jim Pirzyk <Jim.Pirzyk@disney.com>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/bin/rcp rcp.c util.c
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On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 09:44:29AM -0700, Jim Pirzyk wrote:
> Yes, also I removed the -DSUPPORT_DOT from the chowm Makefile
> and recompiled.  What I see in the future is some sort of runtime
> configuration to determine if chown is to use the '.' as a group
> seperator.  Maybe a defaults file /etc/defaults/chown (like SVR4)
> or a sysctl variable user.chown.use_dot and the default be the
> current behavior, but that in our site, we would change the default.

The sysctls are reserved for the kernel, and is only used for non-kernel
purposes if it is absolutely convenient.

I don't think I'd consider its use for setting behaviour modes for chown as
absolutely convenient - that belongs in an environment variable for the single
chown instance, not as a global variable, IMO.

Eivind.

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