Subject: Re: single user mode file comparisons
To: Robert Elz <kre@munnari.OZ.AU>
From: Rafal Boni <rafal@attbi.com>
List: current-users
Date: 06/09/2003 12:07:34
In message <11054.1055163142@munnari.OZ.AU>, you write:
-> Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2003 18:14:07 -0400
-> From: William Allen Simpson <wsimpson@greendragon.com>
-> Message-ID: <3EE3B521.6A302CAB@greendragon.com>
->
-> | Of these, chgrp is in /rescue, and required for /bin by FHS.
->
-> I cannot imagine anything which I would ever need to chgrp or chown
-> during system startup which didn't qualify as a system rescue, so no,
-> they don't belong.
Actually, the goop that makes an MFS'ed /dev (in the case you don't
have one on disk) uses chown, because the MAKEDEV script does. If
we had a devfs, I would imagine we'd also need something to set the
perms and ownerships of the device nodes...
Other than that, I'm in complete agreement.
--rafal
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