From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jul 16 0:46:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from avarice.riverstyx.net (hq-port-97.harbour-dhcp-pool.infinetgroup.com [207.23.37.97]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBD6314E3E for ; Fri, 16 Jul 1999 00:46:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from unknown@riverstyx.net) Received: from avarice (unknown@avarice [207.23.37.97]) by avarice.riverstyx.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA16211; Fri, 16 Jul 1999 00:45:52 -0700 Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 00:45:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Tani Hosokawa To: Dominic Mitchell Cc: Terry Lambert , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Known MMAP() race conditions ... ? In-Reply-To: <19990716084229.A48601@palmerharvey.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, Dominic Mitchell wrote: > On Fri, Jul 16, 1999 at 12:06:19AM +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: > > Even given the existance of the evil "configure" program I really > > doubt the Apache people aren't (very) wise to this. > > Evil configure program? > > I find gnu configure scripts to be a blessing, but I'm merely an > administrator... > > Please explain what is so awful about them. Apache doesn't use autoconf (it's on the TODO for 2.0, I'm told). It uses a collection of shell scripts that are, to be quite honest, quite evil. They work well enough, I guess... --- tani hosokawa river styx internet To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message