From owner-cvs-all Mon Sep 24 15:55:10 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.92.13.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01F3437B407; Mon, 24 Sep 2001 15:55:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.6/8.11.1) id f8OMsXg27039; Mon, 24 Sep 2001 15:54:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 15:54:33 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Alexander Langer Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc rc Message-ID: <20010924155433.A27017@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.org References: <200109241817.f8OIHBM06001@freefall.freebsd.org> <20010924225049.A958@zerogravity.kawo2.rwth-aachen.d> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010924225049.A958@zerogravity.kawo2.rwth-aachen.d>; from alex@big.endian.de on Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 10:50:49PM +0200 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 10:50:49PM +0200, Alexander Langer wrote: > Thus spake David E. O'Brien (obrien@FreeBSD.org): > > > Back out rev 1.274. The previous behavior was documented in rc.8 and > > the original commit of local_startup depended on the scripts being > > executable; so there is too much precedence to change it now. About all > > anyone could agree on is that rev 1.274 broke POLA and before rev 1.274 > > also broke POLA. > > What about test(1)ing with -x if the file is executeable and then > call /bin/sh to execute it. Seems to be the most logical behaviour > to me and satifies both revs. Huh? What is different between ``./foo.sh'' and ``sh foo.sh'' when foo.sh is excutable? The reason to use `ss' to run `foo.sh' is that foo.sh does not then need to be executeable. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message