From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Oct 8 7:17:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from cmh-dial.columbus.rr.com (cmh-dial.columbus.rr.com [204.210.252.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DCDE37B503 for ; Sun, 8 Oct 2000 07:17:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from columbus.rr.com (dhcp16466029.columbus.rr.com [24.164.66.29]) by cmh-dial.columbus.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA19780 for ; Sun, 8 Oct 2000 10:16:47 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <39E08323.A84B7BB0@columbus.rr.com> Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 10:22:27 -0400 From: Bill Moran X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make buildworld failing References: <39E03D71.AC278983@urx.com> <20001008132312.A253@parish> <20001008154111.D96958@freebie.demon.nl> <20001008144909.D253@parish> <20001008160111.A97340@freebie.demon.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Wilko Bulte wrote: > I'm familiar with the behaviour below. But I classify it as annoying, > if root is too dim to be careful then... > > Wilko That's an interesting take on things. Personally, I find it comforting to have a fallback mechanism to prevent me from doing stupid things when I'm trying to fix a frustrating problem with little sleep to help me. Careful as you may be, personally I'm still human. It's probably a mute point, though. Isn't this behaviour mandated by POSIX? On another note ... why does `make world' put the immutable tag on object files during a build? There may be an excellent reason, but I'm somewhat confused by it. -Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message