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Date:      Tue, 14 Dec 1999 13:44:51 +0200
From:      Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To:        "David E. O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/chown Makefile 
Message-ID:  <40554.945171891@axl.noc.iafrica.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 13 Dec 1999 20:48:17 PST." <199912140448.UAA65838@freefall.freebsd.org> 

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On Mon, 13 Dec 1999 20:48:17 PST, "David E. O'Brien" wrote:

>   Modified files:
>     usr.sbin/chown       Makefile 
>   Log:
>   Install `chown' into /sbin rather than /usr/sbin as `chown' is needed by
>   `MAKEDEV'.  And one might need to `MAKEDEV' inorder to get a device node
>   in order to mount /usr from.

Perhaps, but chown isn't needed to get a device node, since chown errors
are not fatal in MAKEDEV.  I've discussed this publically with the
originators of at least two PR's.

If that was your only reason for doing this, I'd say you're wasting time
with it.  In the grand scheme of things, it doesn't really matter
(you've just introduced some mess, nothing more) but I should be very
careful about doing more of these.

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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