From owner-cvs-all Tue Dec 14 16:49:12 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mimer.webgiro.com (mimer.webgiro.com [212.209.29.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49B2614D25; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 16:48:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from abial@webgiro.com) Received: by mimer.webgiro.com (Postfix, from userid 66) id A46642DC09; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 01:49:39 +0100 (CET) Received: by mx.webgiro.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 1B44F7811; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 01:47:41 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mx.webgiro.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 165BC10E10; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 01:47:41 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 01:47:41 +0100 (CET) From: Andrzej Bialecki To: "Rodney W. Grimes" Cc: Matthew Dillon , "Louis A. Mamakos" , obrien@NUXI.com, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/chown Makefile In-Reply-To: <199912150021.QAA20295@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Tue, 14 Dec 1999, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > : > > :So, do we need to wait until the perfect solution until any progress > > :can be made at all? The place that I suspect most folks trip across > > :the chown problem is when making new device nodes for disk devices. > > I would solve this problem by adding options to 'mknod' to allow the > > user & group to be specified, and leaving chown where it was before. Why do you all insist on tweaking the whole OS to play by MAKEDEV rules, instead of trying to invent a way to reduce its dependancy on external tools? IMVHO all of the needed functions are already part of libc, so it makes sense to do it in C instead of /bin/sh. Andrzej Bialecki // WebGiro AB, Sweden (http://www.webgiro.com) // ------------------------------------------------------------------- // ------ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve. http://www.freebsd.org -------- // --- Small & Embedded FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ ---- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message