From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jan 9 12:55:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA11819 for chat-outgoing; Fri, 9 Jan 1998 12:55:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rvc1.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de (rvc1.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de [141.31.112.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA11802 for ; Fri, 9 Jan 1998 12:55:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from helbig@Informatik.BA-Stuttgart.DE) Received: (from helbig@localhost) by rvc1.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de (8.8.8/8.8.5) id VAA29829; Fri, 9 Jan 1998 21:51:50 +0100 (MET) From: Wolfgang Helbig Message-Id: <199801092051.VAA29829@rvc1.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de> Subject: Re: learn program In-Reply-To: from Annelise Anderson at "Jan 9, 98 11:43:27 am" To: andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu (Annelise Anderson) Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 21:51:49 +0100 (MET) Cc: helbig@Informatik.BA-Stuttgart.DE, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, jmr@ugcs.caltech.edu, kevin_eliuk@sunshine.net, chris@bb.cc.wa.us X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL30 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > FYI, there's an ftp mirror of the cvs learn source on my server, > andrsn.stanford.edu. It updates twice a day from freefall.FreeBSD.org. > According to the logs there have been no changes since July 31, 1997. > It does get accessed now and then, though. It's in the pub/learncvs > directory. Hi Annelise, thanks for the pointer. I wasn't aware of learncvs, so I literally reinvented the wheel, coming up with about the same changes joerg did. I didn't know shell's +m flag though, which made me code an extra fork(2) and setsid(2) to get rid of the controlling terminal. Joerg, did you plan to put it in FreeBSD's base distribution? Should we? Why not? :-) Wolfgang