Moving some items out of src/sbin to src/usr.sbin

Gordon Tetlow gordont at gnf.org
Sat May 31 15:50:42 PDT 2003


On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 03:28:22PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sat, 31 May 2003, David O'Brien wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 12:38:49PM -0700, Gordon Tetlow wrote:
> > > To cut down on the size of a dynamically-linked root, I'd like to
> > > repo-copy the following utilities from src/sbin to src/usr.sbin:
> > > 
> > > mount_portalfs
> > > mount_nwfs
> > > mount_smbfs
> > > natd
> > > ipnat
> > > 
> > > Does anyone have any objections?
> it would make it hard to mount an smbfs /usr right?
> 
> I think it goes against POLA to mofe mount subtypes away from where they
> are..

mount_smbfs is dynamically linked currently. You can't use it to mount
/usr even if you wanted to. No POLA will be broken by moving it. And
if you are using nwfs or portalfs for /usr, may $DEITY have pity on your
soul.

-gordon
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