From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 12 10:56:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E56937B423; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 10:56:34 -0800 (PST) Received: by elvis.mu.org (Postfix, from userid 1192) id 6F79110DDF9; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 10:53:52 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 10:53:52 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: "M. Warner Losh" Cc: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AWK/perl hacker needed to assist the Sparc64 port Message-ID: <20020212105352.Q63886@elvis.mu.org> References: <20020212084918.A69309@dragon.nuxi.com> <20020212.104500.42462266.imp@village.org> <20020212103646.P63886@elvis.mu.org> <20020212.114355.20239712.imp@village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020212.114355.20239712.imp@village.org>; from imp@village.org on Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 11:43:55AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * M. Warner Losh [020212 10:46] wrote: > In message: <20020212103646.P63886@elvis.mu.org> > Alfred Perlstein writes: > : * M. Warner Losh [020212 10:35] wrote: > : > In message: <20020212084918.A69309@dragon.nuxi.com> > : > "David O'Brien" writes: > : > : A shell hacker could really help out the FreeBSD/sparc64 porting effort > : > : by updating vnode_if.pl rev 1.19 to have all the functionality the perl > : > : version has today. > : > > : > Would a 'C' hacker do :-) > : > : Heh, I wish someone would add some extra regex and seperator type > : stuff to our 'sh' that became available when running it under > : another name or with a special flag... > : > : any takers on that one? :) > > Well, we could import ksh, which already does this :-) Go for it. -- -Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology," start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.' Tax deductible donations for FreeBSD: http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message