From owner-cvs-all Tue Jan 26 10:28:52 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA12118 for cvs-all-outgoing; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 10:28:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from picalon.gun.de (picalon.gun.de [194.77.0.18] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA12108; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 10:28:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andreas@klemm.gtn.com) Received: from klemm.gtn.com (pppak04.gtn.com [194.231.123.169]) by picalon.gun.de (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id TAA07538; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 19:28:42 +0100 (MET) Received: (from andreas@localhost) by klemm.gtn.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) id TAA68643; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 19:28:07 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from andreas) Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 19:28:06 +0100 From: Andreas Klemm To: Mark Murray Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , Nate Williams , Matthew Dillon , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Small, useful tools (Was: Re: 'cpdup' program, and question) Message-ID: <19990126192806.A68626@titan.klemm.gtn.com> References: <26964.917370498@critter.freebsd.dk> <199901261814.UAA50298@greenpeace.grondar.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <199901261814.UAA50298@greenpeace.grondar.za>; from Mark Murray on Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 08:14:16PM +0200 X-Disclaimer: A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-STABLE SMP Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 08:14:16PM +0200, Mark Murray wrote: > Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > >Examples: more is a subset of less > > > > Isn't our current "more" actually and older version of "less" ? > > Easily possible. > > > > > > >For other small bits-of-code, there is my old favourite, tcp_wrappers > > > > > > > I think I would support tcp_wrappers in FreeBSD, if it wasn't because > > our current modus operandi for src/contrib suffers in so many ways. > > As things stand > > I think it is better left as a port. > > Tcp_wrappers are small enough to bmake directly. Trivial job. I'd second this with respect to FreeBSD getting an entry in the ,hall of fames' of "Ultra secure" BSD's ;-) -- Andreas Klemm http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/~andreas What gives you 90% more speed, for example, in kernel compilation ? http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/~fsmp/SMP/akgraph-a/graph1.html "NT = Not Today" (Maggie Biggs) ``powered by FreeBSD SMP'' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message