From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 15 14:51:27 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id OAA17588 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 15 May 1995 14:51:27 -0700 Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id OAA17576 for ; Mon, 15 May 1995 14:51:25 -0700 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA11277; Mon, 15 May 95 15:44:18 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9505152144.AA11277@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: login.c environ=envinit ? To: nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Date: Mon, 15 May 95 15:44:17 MDT Cc: sef@kithrup.com, bde@zeta.org.au, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu In-Reply-To: <199505152130.PAA27192@trout.sri.MT.net> from "Nate Williams" at May 15, 95 03:30:16 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > I'm > > a little hesitant to risk 4G of disk contents (even though it is backed > > up doubly to QIC tape), both because my house isn't well net-connected > > and because I don't have a CDROM to fix things in case of problems. > > Would a 2.0.5 CD change your mind? It'd help; I'll buy one when it comes out. 8-). > > Not > > to mention that I'll have to throw out or rewrite a lot of file system > > and networking and internationalization code to get back to where I am > > today. > > Unfortunately, that code is going to have to be re-written in *any* case > if you want that code to ever become part of a BSD release. Depends on how much additional code I rewrite. 8-). But you are probably right -- there's just too darn many things to work on. 8-(. > The longer you put it off, the harder it will be to bring it into > -current. Not really -- putty-work is putty-work. It's all grunt-work to wedge stuff from one platform to another. It's probably why I tend to put it off (above and beyond hardware issues). Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.