[1301] in NetBSD-Development
Re: Packs permissions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Sat Apr 20 14:03:06 1996
To: Yoav Yerushalmi <yoav@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>, netbsd-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 20 Apr 1996 13:42:49 EDT."
<199604201742.NAA03435@i-see-everything-twice.MIT.EDU>
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 1996 14:02:38 EDT
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> out of interest, why are we not allowing ourselves to write to it
> by default, and simply agreeing not to do that (except for patch,
> and that also rarely) ?
> It seems we're going out of our way to make life difficult for
> ourselves...
It's fairly easy to modify the packs accidentally. Craig found that
it happened pretty often in the dev cell before he instituted
system:packs there.
I don't know what "Unknown code dm 120" means; I'll look at it right
away.
