From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Wed Jun 23 05:35:50 2010 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at demon.co.uk Subject: Re: [MiNT] UNIXMODE defaults From: Alan Hourihane To: Vincent =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rivi=E8re?= Cc: mint In-Reply-To: <4C21D188.5000208@freesbee.fr> References: <1277280022.11001.3.camel@jetpack.demon.co.uk> <4C21CC12.3050401@freesbee.fr> <1277283908.11001.12.camel@jetpack.demon.co.uk> <4C21D188.5000208@freesbee.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 10:33:08 +0100 Message-ID: <1277285588.11001.13.camel@jetpack.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.3.1 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: alanh@fairlite.co.uk Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by mail.sparemint.org id o5N9ZnEZ032018 On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 11:19 +0200, Vincent Rivière wrote: > Alan Hourihane wrote: > > The kernel sets the default UNIXMODE to "/brUs", so by default the > > kernel is setting up the environment. So the user actually has to ask > > for it to behave like TOS. So it's the other way around to your liking. > > Well, if some day the official behaviour does not match my needs, I will > patch the kernel and use an unofficial version. Well, it's been like this for at least 10 years :-) > > I think I'm going to enforce scriptability now too, which I don't think > > is any significant problem given that I think most people would want the > > script that starts with #! to be interpreted as a shell script. > > What could be the problems ? I can't think of any. Alan.