From owner-freebsd-audit Thu Mar 1 5:30:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-audit@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BFB437B719 for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2001 05:30:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA80098; Thu, 1 Mar 2001 14:30:30 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Dima Dorfman Cc: audit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Propagating the nodump flag References: <20010301041234.9F3D63E09@bazooka.unixfreak.org> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 01 Mar 2001 14:30:30 +0100 In-Reply-To: Dima Dorfman's message of "Wed, 28 Feb 2001 20:12:34 -0800" Message-ID: Lines: 21 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-audit@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dima Dorfman writes: > Attached below is a port of NetBSD's patch to FreeBSD's dump(8). The > patch is probably more complex than it should have been due to dump's > obscure tree-walker. For the technical details of what it does, see: > http://lists.openresources.com/NetBSD/tech-kern/msg00453.html (note > that the patch there is not identical to the one below, and should not > be used; the reference is provided for its excellent technical > explanation of the patch). 1) does our dump(8) have useful functionality that NetBSD's doesn't? 2) does NetBSD's dump(8) have useful functionality that ours doesn't? If the answers to these questions are "no" and "yes" respectively, as I suspect they may be, we should just replace our dump(8) with NetBSD's. If the answers are "yes" and "yes", we should merge evrything NetBSD's dump(8) does that ours doesn't into our dump(8) and strive to keep the diffs between the two as small as possible. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-audit" in the body of the message