Date: Mon, 25 Sep 1995 20:53:28 -0400 From: Coranth Gryphon <gryphon@healer.com> To: gryphon@healer.com, terry@lambert.org Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, jmb@kryten.atinc.com, patl@asimov.volant.org, peter@taronga.com Subject: Re: ports startup scripts Message-ID: <199509260053.UAA14129@healer.com>
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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
> Functionally, I can union mount my script directory over a read-only
> template directory to add my local scripts.
OK. But I really doubt this is something the average person is going
to attempt.
> How do I union two files?
Have a basic file, and a local file which is called aftter the basic file.
> this still doesn't handle the "union of several directories" problem,
> even if the contents are simply a file, if order of operation is based
> on file order.
No, you've got me there, you can't easily mix lines from two
different files to get an arbitrary order.
But this falls into my very-small-fraction of people category.
I really can't conceive of it being a general case to want two
unique sets of start ups that need to be interspesed, in a generic
manner, on the fly.
-coranth
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