[indiana-discuss] [ogb-discuss] [caiman-discuss] Move

Dave Miner Dave.Miner at Sun.COM
Wed Jun 4 14:41:34 PDT 2008


MC wrote:
>> BTW, for those of you throwing stones at Dave Miner, please
>> redirect those stones towards me as I was the one who asked him to
>> make the change to the installer such that the default user would
>> have /usr/gnu/bin at the front of their PATH.  Although I 
>> appreciate hearing people's opinions on this, what I really value
>> would be hearing the experiences from both existing OpenSolaris
>> users and new-to-OpenSolaris users who have used these settings as
>> shipped.
> 
> As a new person I think it is a bug that chmod doesn't work.  Most
> people aren't nerds like you and I, and they don't know that chmod
> doesn't work because gnu chmod is the default chmod and zfs is the
> default file system and gnu chmod doesn't work on zfs.  Why should
> anyone ever have to deal with this? --
> 

They shouldn't, but the answer is, of course, to contribute a fix to GNU 
chmod to correct the problem.  Exposing the problem is the first step in 
fixing it.

Dave



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