Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 18:57:34 +0200 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> Cc: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Small, useful tools (Was: Re: 'cpdup' program, and question) Message-ID: <199901261657.SAA44931@greenpeace.grondar.za> In-Reply-To: Your message of " Tue, 26 Jan 1999 09:39:51 MST." <199901261639.JAA12456@mt.sri.com> References: <199901260452.UAA12753@apollo.backplane.com> <199901261639.JAA12456@mt.sri.com>
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Nate Williams wrote:
> Port. Lots of useful programs exist as ports, and even though many of
> them would be helpful in lots of plausible situations (crashes, etc..),
> it doesn't justify being part of the 'system required' sources.
I've often wondered about some of these, particularly when at least some
of their functionality is already in the base system. Perhaps their
functionality could be grafted onto an existing, similar tool?
Examples: more is a subset of less
fmt " " " " par
...and I am sure there are more similar examples.
Rather than writing new code, it may be useful for authors to consider
extending old; in the case of cpdup rdist may have been a good starting
point.
<asbestos>
For other small bits-of-code, there is my old favourite, tcp_wrappers
which can be used by sendmail, NetBSD's inetd and improved portmappers.
These are bits of code that add very little bloat to a binary system,
and make it a <expletive>-load more useful in one-easy-step. Heck, they
don't even add that much bloat to the source tree :-)
</asbestos>
M
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