Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 22:30:35 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Cc: julian@whistle.com (Julian Elischer) Subject: Re: comments on this change please. Message-ID: <199610222030.WAA19354@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <326D1467.41C67EA6@whistle.com> from Julian Elischer at "Oct 22, 96 11:37:27 am"
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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. ;-)
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