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Re: makesyscalls (moving forward)



Johnny Billquist <bqt%softjar.se@localhost> wrote:
>On 2020-06-14 23:21, Paul Goyette wrote:
>> On Sun, 14 Jun 2020, David Holland wrote:
>> 
>> <snip>
>> 
>>> This raises two points that need to be bikeshedded:
>>>
>>> (1) What's the new tool called, and where does it live in the tree?
>>> "usr.bin/makesyscalls" is fine with me but ymmv.
>> 
>> "usr.bin/makesyscalls" sounds good to me.
>
>Uh? usr.bin is where stuff for /usr/bin is located, right? Anything 
>there should be pretty normal tools that any user might be interested 
>in. Don't seem to me as makesyscalls would be a tool like that?

As config(1) is in /usr/bin that seems the best place for makesyscalls
too.

I would expect that the generated files would have the developer uid and
gid, I wouldn't want them owned by root.


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