Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 00:39:45 +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: <199610222239.AAA20548@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <326D4219.446B9B3D@whistle.com> from Julian Elischer at "Oct 22, 96 02:52:25 pm"
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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. ;-)
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