From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Jul 4 14:29:53 2002 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 9FEA237B400; Thu, 4 Jul 2002 14:29:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net (scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.49]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5188D43E09; Thu, 4 Jul 2002 14:29:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0231.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.192.231] helo=mindspring.com) by scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17QEAf-0003EQ-00; Thu, 04 Jul 2002 17:29:49 -0400 Message-ID: <3D24BE24.7F4A1659@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2002 14:29:08 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Johan Karlsson Cc: arch@freebsd.org, dd@freebsd.org Subject: Re: importing readlink(1) from OpenBSD References: <20020704194314.A52250@numeri.campus.luth.se> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Johan Karlsson wrote: > - But we already have OpenBSDs readlink(1) in the ports > tree. Why do you still want to do that? > > We should, IMO, have front ends to most/all of our syscalls > as utilities in our base system. This is one step > closer to that goal. > > - Why did you think of this now? Let me know when you get to select, kqueue, and fcntl based file locking. ;^) -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message