From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 22 13:52:49 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA01712 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 13:52:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA01674 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 13:52:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id WAA25706; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 22:51:29 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id WAA04278; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 22:51:28 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.6/8.6.9) id WAA19354; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 22:30:35 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199610222030.WAA19354@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: comments on this change please. To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 22:30:35 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: julian@whistle.com (Julian Elischer) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <326D1467.41C67EA6@whistle.com> from Julian Elischer at "Oct 22, 96 11:37:27 am" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Julian Elischer wrote: > (There's precedent with /var/run/printer, and > > we should convince the XFree86 folks of /var/run/X11, too.) > > that would just be a porting issue.. Not only. Many people don't use x11 from the ports, but use a plain XFree86 distribution. I don't think the XFree86 folks will find /var/run/ unreasonable. > > Do symlink handling in devfs first. > > devfs already DOES handle symlinks and has fro several months Ooops, sorry. I've apparently missed this. > > Do also modify the remaining Makefiles etc. to make sure the symlink > > will be in place on any new system. > yeah I guess so, though once syslogd has been run r/w it's there.. :) Hmpf. Nope. (I've missed this in your diff.) Don't do _this_! You don't expect the termcap library to create the /etc/termcap link. You shouldn't expect syslogd to create the /dev/log link, either. That's a matter of the system installation (or upgrade procedure for those tracking -current). > > I'm against bloating it with the `OLD_' cruft. Either change > > completely, or keep it as it is. > > I want to make sure there are as few surprises as possible.. If the symlink is there, i wouldn't expect surprises. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)