Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 02:06:06 -0400 (EDT) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, Rasputin <rara.rasputin@virgin.net>, Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0107120205200.26121-100000@sasami.jurai.net> In-Reply-To: <20010711112054.D93534@lpt.ens.fr>
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On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > I've seen people disable compilers before, but I haven't understood > how it helps. You can compile elsewhere and bring the binary onto the > system, can't you? Unless the system is some extremely rare OS or > doesn't ship with a compiler at all -- neither of which is true of > FreeBSD. Unless of course user writable space is mounted noexec. -- | Matthew N. Dodd | '78 Datsun 280Z | '75 Volvo 164E | FreeBSD/NetBSD | | winter@jurai.net | 2 x '84 Volvo 245DL | ix86,sparc,pmax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | For Great Justice! | ISO8802.5 4ever | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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