From nobody Tue May 7 12:46:06 2024 X-Original-To: current@mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4VYdLb12hSz5Klwg for ; Tue, 07 May 2024 12:46:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jamie@catflap.org) Received: from donotpassgo.dyslexicfish.net (donotpassgo.dyslexicfish.net [IPv6:2001:19f0:7400:8808:123::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4VYdLY16bdz41fd for ; Tue, 7 May 2024 12:46:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jamie@catflap.org) Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=none; dmarc=pass (policy=none) header.from=catflap.org; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of jamie@catflap.org designates 2001:19f0:7400:8808:123::1 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=jamie@catflap.org X-Catflap-Envelope-From: X-Catflap-Envelope-To: Received: from donotpassgo.dyslexicfish.net (donotpassgo.dyslexicfish.net [209.250.224.51]) by donotpassgo.dyslexicfish.net (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id 447Ck6qZ080494 for ; Tue, 7 May 2024 13:46:06 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jamie@donotpassgo.dyslexicfish.net) Received: (from jamie@localhost) by donotpassgo.dyslexicfish.net (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) id 447Ck6wt080493 for current@freebsd.org; Tue, 7 May 2024 13:46:06 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jamie) From: Jamie Landeg-Jones Message-Id: <202405071246.447Ck6wt080493@donotpassgo.dyslexicfish.net> Date: Tue, 07 May 2024 13:46:06 +0100 Organization: Dyslexic Fish To: current@freebsd.org Subject: termcap.db unused? User-Agent: Heirloom mailx 12.4 7/29/08 List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-current List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender passed SPF test, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (donotpassgo.dyslexicfish.net [209.250.224.51]); Tue, 07 May 2024 13:46:06 +0100 (BST) X-Spamd-Bar: -- X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-2.59 / 15.00]; SUBJECT_ENDS_QUESTION(1.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-0.999]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-0.98)[-0.982]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-0.91)[-0.907]; DMARC_POLICY_ALLOW(-0.50)[catflap.org,none]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+mx:dyslexicfish.net]; RCVD_NO_TLS_LAST(0.10)[]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; HAS_ORG_HEADER(0.00)[]; FREEFALL_USER(0.00)[jamie]; RCPT_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; ASN(0.00)[asn:20473, ipnet:2001:19f0:7400::/38, country:US]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; TO_DN_NONE(0.00)[]; MLMMJ_DEST(0.00)[current@freebsd.org]; PREVIOUSLY_DELIVERED(0.00)[current@freebsd.org]; ARC_NA(0.00)[] X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4VYdLY16bdz41fd I was looking at a ktrace dump file recently (/bin/ls) and noticed that during initialisation, it attempted to read /etc/termcap.db - as that failed, it then read the text version pointed to by /etc/termcap Adding a link: /etc/termcap.db -> /usr/share/misc/termcap.db caused subsequent runs to use the termcap.db version. Is there any reason why /etc/termcap is linked, whilst /etc/termcap.db isn't? And if so, what's the purpose of /usr/share/misc/termcap.db ? Cheers, Jamie