The following reply was made to PR install/15003; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: install/15003 (sysinst generated scripts are not OK)
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 09:30:44 +0100

 On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 04:59:51AM +0000, jmcneill@netbsd.org wrote:
 > Synopsis: sysinst generated scripts are not OK
 > 
 > State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback
 > State-Changed-By: jmcneill@netbsd.org
 > State-Changed-When: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 04:59:49 +0000
 > State-Changed-Why:
 > Much has changed since NetBSD 1.5.2; is this still an issue?
 
 The sysinst 'scripts' don't contain all the stuff that sysinst does.
 I've sometimes considered deleting the code that tries to generate them.
 Then sysinst could use the kernell interfaces to do work, instead of
 having to use system("shell command") which it dos now.
 
 	David
 
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 David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk