From owner-freebsd-current Thu Sep 26 08:07:56 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA00408 for current-outgoing; Thu, 26 Sep 1996 08:07:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from agora.rdrop.com (root@agora.rdrop.com [199.2.210.241]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA00385 for ; Thu, 26 Sep 1996 08:07:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rocky.mt.sri.com by agora.rdrop.com with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #17) id m0v6I2Y-0008tNC; Thu, 26 Sep 96 08:07 PDT Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.mt.sri.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA15890; Thu, 26 Sep 1996 08:52:48 -0600 (MDT) Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 08:52:48 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199609261452.IAA15890@rocky.mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams To: Terry Lambert Cc: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams), current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: install on {Net,Open}BSD vs install on FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <199609252025.NAA06624@phaeton.artisoft.com> References: <199609251839.MAA12703@rocky.mt.sri.com> <199609252025.NAA06624@phaeton.artisoft.com> Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I suspect the NetBSD inclusion of the "-d" was for reasons of > commercial product installation (such as license managers, which > work over Garrett's theoretical objections), since they have > SunOS ABI compatability in their SPARC port. No, it was because they used it to build directories. It was done back in the 0.8 days so that they didn't have. foo: mkdir foo chown bin.bin foo chmod 755 foo. Nate