On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 3:08 AM, Rob Landley <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11/04/2011 11:47 AM, Natanael Copa wrote: >> >> The main reason to have it in bb is that its convenient. > > Convenient for you.
I am not the first person asking for it in busybox [1] and most distros ships this tool. > Every busybox user configuring their system will > have to make the decision about whether or not they want it, meaning > they'll have to learn I kinda assumed everybody in *nix land knew what this is and what it is for. I was obviously wrong. You will always find people who hates learning new things. > what your new command does. This is not my command and it is not new. This is a standard tool that has been around in *nix land for at least 14 years[2] . It is trivial to me keep this as patch in my own tree but I have always thought its a good thing to contribute things back upstream. I can stop doing so if that is what you guys prefer. -- Natanael Copa [1] http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox-cvs/2006-December/009540.html [2] copyright says 1997: http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sbin/nologin/nologin.c?rev=1.5 _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
