Hi Teemu, Teemu Rinta-aho wrote on Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 12:51:17PM +0300:
> I need the "-X" flag for mtree on OpenBSD to exclude certain paths. > So, I ported the functionality from NetBSD. Seems to work for me. Personally, i'm not holding a strong opinion whether or not we should have that functionality. > I was just thinking, whether anyone else cares about such patch, and > what is the process if I want to propose some new (/ported) code > to OpenBSD. When you have a patch to the base system, just post it to t...@. Include *short* remarks - what it does, and what it's useful for - when adding options to or changing options of system commands, whether POSIX say anything about it, and what the situation on other platforms is, a far as you know; NetBSD, FreeBSD, Solaris and Linux are most interesting, but other systems may be relevant, too. The worst that might happen to you is that it might get shot down as "not useful, we don't want non-standard extensions". But when people consider it useful and well-written, chances are somebody will commit it. In case you get no feedback, try to find out who is actively working on the code, for example using cvsweb, and contact one or two developers directly, in this case probably mill...@. > Or, should I create an optional package (mtreex?), Definitely not: Almost nobody will use it. > or, should I just keep this to myself? Only in case others don't like it. ;-) Yours, Ingo
