From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Sep 17 14: 7:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n37.san.rr.com (dt051n37.san.rr.com [204.210.32.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4293037B422 for ; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:07:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gorean.org (doug@master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n37.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA58863; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:06:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Message-ID: <39C5326B.F80CF5C2@gorean.org> Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:06:51 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT-091 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Aleksandr A.Babaylov" Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mergemaster RFC (long) References: <200009172102.BAA27585@aaz.links.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Aleksandr A.Babaylov" wrote: > > Doug Barton writes: > .......... > > And the last of the ideas I want feedback on is related to the problem > > of determining permissions on the files to be installed. To my knowledge > > there is no existing C utility that will tell you the octal permissions > ports/sysutils/stat, for example Thank you for the reference. I should have stated more explicitly that it needs to be part of the base already. You're correct in stating that a program to manipulate the stat(2) function is easy to write, even I can write one. :) Doug -- "The dead cannot be seduced." - Kai, "Lexx" Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message