On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 01:07:16PM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote:
> Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> > > : > : A shell hacker could really help out the FreeBSD/sparc64
> > > : > : porting effort by updating vnode_if.pl rev 1.19 to have all
> > > : > : the functionality the perl version has today.
> 
> vnode_if.pl is a perl script.
> 
> I don't understand the request for a shell hacker in the first
> place.

Because in order to use (ie, run it), one needs to have perl on the
machine.  (1) We do not yet have Perl bootstrapped on the sparc64 platform.
(2) Perl is harder to bootstrap than sh, sed, or BWK awk.

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