On 14-Sep-00 at 05:37, Poul-Henning Kamp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> >You think adding a hack to every program to support "-" to mean
> >stdout/stdin is better?
>
> The majority of these programs could be handled by adding knowledge
> of "-" as a magic filename to fopen(3).
>
> At the same time
On 6-Apr-00 at 23:35, Kris Kennaway ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Apr 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > You can't just make install in /usr/ports/lang/perl any more - there's
> > a FORBIDDEN in there.
>
> Right, because we actually have a later version in the base system
> (5.005_03 vs
On 3-Apr-00 at 02:56, Nick Hibma ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> Are there actually any good reasons why we _should_ upgrade in the first
> place? Security fixes, added functionality we require, etc. The perl we
> have is stable and the problems it has are well known, which is good
> enough in 99
On 3-Apr-00 at 10:09, Brad Knowles ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> At 11:59 AM -0400 2000/4/3, Jeroen C. van Gelderen wrote:
>
> > PERL is not just used by the FreeBSD system, it's also used by many
> > applications ran on top of FreeBSD. Those applications are more likely
> > to require an up-t
On 10-Nov-99 at 06:59, Alexander Leidinger ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote: > On 10 Nov, Oliver Fromme wrote:
>
> > Using command substitution in /etc/rc.conf{,.local} is NOT
> > officially supported. I think it should have always been
> > clear that there should _only_ be plain variable assignments.
On 15-Oct-99 at 15:05, John Birrell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 08:09:57PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> > Sheer curiosity and most likely a somewhat dim question:
> >
> > what the h* is a weak versus a strong symbol?
>
> A weak symbol is like an alias for another (strong)
> I always thought the criteria for inclusion of things into the base
> system was:
>
> 1. Needed for 'make world';
> 2. Needed to get a basic functioning server up and running;
> 3. Something usefull only within FreeBSD (like the kernel ;), or
> 4. Can't be effectively built outside of /usr/s
