From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Apr 2 01:31:18 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id BAA28981 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 2 Apr 1995 01:31:18 -0800 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id BAA28958 for ; Sun, 2 Apr 1995 01:31:05 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA19397; Sun, 2 Apr 1995 11:30:43 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.9/8.6.9-s1) with UUCP id LAA07096 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sun, 2 Apr 1995 11:30:40 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id JAA06459 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sun, 2 Apr 1995 09:49:08 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199504020749.JAA06459@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: MBONE interfaces and snazzy install tools. To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Sun, 2 Apr 1995 09:49:08 +0200 (MET DST) In-Reply-To: <12432.796783580@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Apr 1, 95 04:46:20 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 667 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > Sure, but I doubt that file modes (including the ones set by chflags) > > and errors can be handled in 2 lines of anything. Don't forget to > > install /tmp with perms 1777 (cp -pR botches the 1000 flag). Don't > > forget to install /kernel and libc.so with flag schg. > > Ok, ok, so it's a 20 like PERL script. It's still smaller! :-) Perl doesn't know about file flags, unfortunately. (This would break perl's abstraction of system independency. File flags are a 4.4BSD matter.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)