From owner-freebsd-audit Wed Aug 8 7:55:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-audit@freebsd.org Received: from mailman.zeta.org.au (mailman.zeta.org.au [203.26.10.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D520C37B40A for ; Wed, 8 Aug 2001 07:55:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bde@zeta.org.au) Received: from bde.zeta.org.au (bde.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.102]) by mailman.zeta.org.au (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA24328; Thu, 9 Aug 2001 00:55:35 +1000 Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 00:53:06 +1000 (EST) From: Bruce Evans X-X-Sender: To: Mark Peek Cc: Peter Pentchev , Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix a file(1) minor POLA stretching In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20010809004909.L8250-100000@besplex.bde.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-audit@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, Mark Peek wrote: > At 12:31 PM +0300 8/8/01, Peter Pentchev wrote: > >On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 06:45:44PM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote: > > > Building at install time breaks installing from readonly object trees > > > (if the sources somehow become out of date). > > Bruce, thanks for catching my mistake. You're right, my patch would > break readonly object trees. > > >True. Then how about just generating the magic DB at install time, > >right into the destination directory? > >Patch attached. > > Given the constraints of cross platform builds and readonly object > trees (phase of the moon anyone? :-) ), I believe your updated patch > is on the right track. I agree. It's too much work to do this "right" (by implementing a cross-tool version of file(1)). Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-audit" in the body of the message