[12972] in Athena Bugs
Re: decmips 7.7G: /usr/athena/bin/man
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Fri Dec 2 02:26:12 1994
To: cfields@MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 01 Dec 1994 16:02:26 +0500."
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Date: Fri, 02 Dec 1994 02:26:08 EST
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
In message <9412012102.AA29123@perilous.MIT.EDU>, cfields@mit.edu writes:
Sorry for the delay in response...
>> 3] I attempted to find the source to /usr/athena/bin/man; I observed
>> that I could not access:
>>
>> /afs/dev/source/src/decmips. This seems odd given that
>> system:anyuser can access /afs/dev/source/src/{rsaix,sun4}.
>
>There is fascist source code in the decmips directory. Hence you can't
>read it. If there is any fascist code in {rsaix,sun4} that you can
>read, it is a bug yet to be corrected in the new source tree.
Is the entire decmips tree fascist? I would hope that only those portions
which really are would be restricted...
>> I also observed that there was no /afs/dev/source/src/usr/athena/bin.
>> FILES.look provides the following man.c's:
> .
> .
> .
>> Since the last 3 are unlikely and the second is unavailable
>
>It is in fact in the second.
[./src/decmips/ucb/man.c]
I could find no documentation to that end; if Athena is not willing to
support users finding source code for arbitrary Athena programs, I
suppose that is not unreasonable. I would expect the FILES file to
contain some indication that decmips/ucb corresponded to
usr/athena/bin (if that's really the case). On the other hand, I guess
it's reasonable for that information to be contained within decmips/,
in a place such as decmips/ucb/Makefile, but I would hope it'd be in a
more central location (like FILES).
Thanks.
--jhawk
