[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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