Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 16:28:43 +0200
From: sthaug@nethelp.no
To: chuckr@glue.umd.edu
Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, current@freebsd.org, imp@village.org
Subject: Re: install on {Net,Open}BSD vs install on FreeBSD
Message-ID: <352.843488923@verdi.nethelp.no>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 23 Sep 1996 08:56:40 -0400 (EDT)"
References: <Pine.OSF.3.95.960923085546.10744C-100000@thurston.eng.umd.edu>
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> > >In the other BSDs, install -d means to create the directory. In
> > >FreeBSD it means to turn on debugging. I propose that we implement
> >
> > Only in -current. -d is a syntax error in standard BSD and 2.1.5R.
> > I used -d for debugging before I knew about its use for directory
> > stuff. I copied it from the -d for debugging in make.
>
> I just tested on an older Sun 4c, it's not a syntax error there, it's the
> way the /usr/ucb/install works.
Indeed. And that's also how it's documented in SunOS 4.1.x:
-d Create a directory. Missing parent direc-
tories are created as required as in mkdir
-p. If the directory already exists, the
owner, group and mode will be set to the
values given on the command line.
Btw, in SunOS 4.1.x it's /usr/bin/install, not /usr/ucb.
Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no
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