From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 24 18:56:10 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAD9B16A4CE for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2005 18:56:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp2.server.rpi.edu (smtp2.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 306AB43D67 for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2005 18:56:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp2.server.rpi.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j1OIu5j6005011; Thu, 24 Feb 2005 13:56:05 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <421DAD8F.6000704@portaone.com> References: <200410020349.i923nG8v021675@northstar.hetzel.org> <20041002052856.GE17792@nexus.dglawrence.com> <20041002233542.GL714@nexus.dglawrence.com> <421DAD8F.6000704@portaone.com> Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 13:56:04 -0500 To: Maxim Sobolev From: Garance A Drosihn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-CanItPRO-Stream: default X-RPI-SA-Score: undef - spam-scanning disabled X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) on 128.113.2.2 cc: "David G. Lawrence" cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bug in #! processing - One More Time X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 18:56:10 -0000 At 12:33 PM +0200 2/24/05, Maxim Sobolev wrote: >Garance A Drosihn wrote: >> >>Or we could do #1 for now, and plan to do #4 after 5.4-release. >>Or do #1 now in 5.3, and go with some incompatible change (#2 >>or #3) only in 6.x-current. >> >>What do people think? ... > >I would vote for making #3 and respective /bin/sh changes and >MFCing them into 5.4. Do you mean "in time for 5.4-release", or do you mean "into 5.4-stable, after 5.4-release is done"? (either way would be fine with me, but I would like to see your change to kern/imgact_shell.c MFC'ed before 5.4-release, even if we don't get #3 done and tested in time for that) >We don't have that many shell scripts that >rely on the previus functionality - ones that in the base system >(if any) can be easily fixed, while ones in /usr/ports can be >conditionalized on OSVERSION. Removing yet another superfluous >difference between FreeBSD and other systems out there is good >thing especially considering that BSD-way creates serious >problems that can't be resolved without changing semantics anyway. The more I think about it, the more I think this is the right idea. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu