From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 22 15:53:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA11880 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 15:53:15 -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 PAA11869 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 15:53:05 -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 AAA00110; Wed, 23 Oct 1996 00:52:21 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id AAA07155; Wed, 23 Oct 1996 00:52:21 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.6/8.6.9) id AAA20548; Wed, 23 Oct 1996 00:39:45 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199610222239.AAA20548@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: comments on this change please. To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 00:39:45 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: julian@whistle.com (Julian Elischer) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <326D4219.446B9B3D@whistle.com> from Julian Elischer at "Oct 22, 96 02:52:25 pm" 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: > > 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'd rather have it for the transition period at least.. Dunno how other people think, but i say ``no''. syslogd does even refuse to create files in /var/log, but i consider it an ugly hack if any program would start creating symlinks all over the place. (I cannot think of _any_ precedence for such a behaviour, at least not in the base operating system.) The transition must be done by Makefiles etc., not by programs where you wouldn't even expect it to be done. -- 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. ;-)