From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Nov 6 7:35:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from yertle.kciLink.com (unknown [208.184.13.195]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A94D37B4C5 for ; Mon, 6 Nov 2000 07:35:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from onceler.kciLink.com (unknown [208.184.13.196]) by yertle.kciLink.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6FAD2E443 for ; Mon, 6 Nov 2000 10:35:50 -0500 (EST) Received: (from khera@localhost) by onceler.kciLink.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eA6FZod34313; Mon, 6 Nov 2000 10:35:50 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from khera) From: Vivek Khera MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14854.53206.620661.19631@onceler.kciLink.com> Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 10:35:50 -0500 (EST) To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dog bite? In-Reply-To: <200011052235.eA5MZug18909@vashon.polstra.com> References: <14853.46185.942858.985511@yertle.kciLink.com> <200011052235.eA5MZug18909@vashon.polstra.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "JP" == John Polstra writes: JP> Vivek Khera wrote: >> >> That file is unconditionally installed with the -C flag >> to install, so it keeps the same date even though the file is updated JP> The -C flag is used for installing the dynamic linker because it JP> causes it to be installed atomically. That is, it is first installed JP> to a temporary file, and then it is atomically renamed to ld-elf.so.1. Now that makes sense... Thanks for the explanation. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message