From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 11 23: 8:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [64.0.106.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BE9837B401 for ; Wed, 11 Jul 2001 23:08:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id CAA77994; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 02:06:07 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 02:06:06 -0400 (EDT) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: Rahul Siddharthan Cc: Terry Lambert , Rasputin , Jamie Bowden , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral In-Reply-To: <20010711112054.D93534@lpt.ens.fr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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