From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 25 17:52:40 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id RAA02384 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 25 Sep 1995 17:52:40 -0700 Received: from healer.com (healer-gw.Empire.Net [205.164.80.204]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id RAA02363 for ; Mon, 25 Sep 1995 17:52:27 -0700 Received: (from gryphon@localhost) by healer.com (8.6.11/8.6.9.1) id UAA14129; Mon, 25 Sep 1995 20:53:28 -0400 Date: Mon, 25 Sep 1995 20:53:28 -0400 From: Coranth Gryphon Message-Id: <199509260053.UAA14129@healer.com> To: gryphon@healer.com, terry@lambert.org Subject: Re: ports startup scripts Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, jmb@kryten.atinc.com, patl@asimov.volant.org, peter@taronga.com Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk From: Terry Lambert > 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 ------------------------------------------+------------------------+ Coranth Gryphon | "Faith Manages." | | - Satai Delenn | Phone: 603-598-3440 Fax: 603-598-3430 +------------------------+ USMail: 3 Hansom Drive, Merrimack, NH 03054 Disclaimer: All these words are yours, except Europa...