On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 09:59:28AM +0200, Jonathan McKeown wrote:
This whole thread only really got started because I questioned Manish Jain's
assertion that there was no editor available in /bin.
To summarise:
There are several editors available ranging from ed (49604 bytes) and ee
(60920 bytes) (both with two library dependencies) to emacs (in ports;
5992604 bytes and 50 library dependencies in my installation) and probably
beyond.
One of them, ed, is available in /bin and therefore in single-user mode.
Two of them, ed and vi, are available in /rescue and therefore in single-user
mode even when something horrible happens and libraries are broken (although
/rescue/vi is currently slightly broken itself due to the termcap issue which
is being fixed in -CURRENT and I hope will be MFC'd).
Anyone who wants /usr/bin/vi available in single-user mode can install
FreeBSD
with one large partition; or mount /usr once in single-user mode.
The original poster suggested that the fix for not having vi in /bin was not
to have any editor at all in /rescue, which comprehensively misses the point
of /rescue.
The only argument that's been advanced for moving vi seems to be ``vi should
be in /bin because that's how I want it''. I find that argument unconvincing,
but it's not up to me. I'm open to a sensible argument, if anyone has one.
Jonathan
What about making it be a build option? Or at least symlink the
static vi in /rescue to /bin...? I mean we have 1.5TB drives
now! 3700 blocks is a burp. A small burp.
For that matter, why not have the option of moving the majority
of /rescue to /bin? I've only had to use the rescue floppy a few
times, but did so only because i needed grep and vi to edit
/etc/fsck ... And major, irksome desl using cat and ed to look
at that file. And a few others in /etc.
gary
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