From owner-freebsd-current Wed Sep 25 05:45:55 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id FAA03914 for current-outgoing; Wed, 25 Sep 1996 05:45:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from po2.glue.umd.edu (po2.glue.umd.edu [129.2.128.45]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id FAA03887 for ; Wed, 25 Sep 1996 05:45:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gilligan.eng.umd.edu (gilligan.eng.umd.edu [129.2.103.21]) by po2.glue.umd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA12104; Wed, 25 Sep 1996 08:45:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by gilligan.eng.umd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA02790; Wed, 25 Sep 1996 08:45:13 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: gilligan.eng.umd.edu: chuckr owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 08:45:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@gilligan.eng.umd.edu To: Nate Williams cc: Richard Wackerbarth , Warner Losh , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: install on {Net,Open}BSD vs install on FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <199609250410.WAA10368@rocky.mt.sri.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 24 Sep 1996, Nate Williams wrote: > > of the case is based on compatibility. I've disagreed with Richard in the > > past when he was using the compatibility to move us towards SYSV without a > > strong reason, but since we ARE bsd, and the -d option IS bsd, the > > The -d option *ISN'T* BSD. It was added by J.T. in NetBSD, and when > OpenBSD took the entire NetBSD source tree over it was there as well. > I'll bet BSDi doesn't have it, and neither does Ultrix, which are also > BSD based systems. And add that Sun DOES do it. I'll check ultrix. > > > Nate > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and n3lxx, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 2.2 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------