From owner-cvs-all Thu Dec 30 8: 7:51 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from florence.pavilion.net (florence.pavilion.net [212.74.0.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE4F814DF3; Thu, 30 Dec 1999 08:07:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from joe@florence.pavilion.net) Received: (from joe@localhost) by florence.pavilion.net (8.9.3/8.8.8) id QAA05024; Thu, 30 Dec 1999 16:07:31 GMT (envelope-from joe) Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 16:07:31 +0000 From: Josef Karthauser To: Bruce Evans Cc: Josef Karthauser , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/bin/ls Makefile src/bin/rm Makefile src/lib/libutil Makefile src/libexec/ftpd Makefile src/usr.bin/chflags Makefile src/usr.bin/find Makefile src/usr.bin/xinstall Makefile src/usr.sbin/mtree Makefile Message-ID: <19991230160731.C1906@florence.pavilion.net> References: <199912301315.FAA63774@freefall.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: X-NCC-RegID: uk.pavilion Organisation: Pavilion Internet plc, Lees House, 21-23 Dyke Road, Brighton, England Phone: +44-845-333-5000 Fax: +44-845-333-5001 Mobile: +44-403-596893 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Fri, Dec 31, 1999 at 01:16:18AM +1100, Bruce Evans wrote: > > This is wrong. libutil is only for little used, mostly login-related > things. Flags handling should be alongside mode handling (getmode(3) and > setmode(3)) in libc if it isn't in ls. > What is the exact definition of libutil? It appears to have more than login-related things in it. Should not its definition should be expanded to allow wider use, or narrowed to only login things (with a possible remame to liblogin)? I agree with you on the flags handling. Should they remain with the same names, or be renamed to getflags/setflags to be in keeping with getmode/setmode? Joe -- Josef Karthauser FreeBSD: Take the red pill and we'll show you just how Technical Manager deep the rabbit hole goes. (http://www.uk.freebsd.org) Pavilion Internet plc. [joe@pavilion.net, joe@freebsd.org, joe@tao.org.uk] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message