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From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
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Subject: Re: SUID-Directories patch
To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams)
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 18:40:57 +0000 (GMT)
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        hackers@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <199711140248.TAA12336@rocky.mt.sri.com> from "Nate Williams" at Nov 13, 97 07:48:09 pm
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> > One of the main incentives for commercial entities to give code
> > back is offloading of maintenance.  You can of course pick and
> > choose what you want to take, but the fix seems generically
> > useful
> 
> And is in 3.0-current, but doesn't belong in 2.2.  On the flip side,
> just because a commercial entity donates code doesn't mean we should
> take it into the source tree lock/stock/and barrel.

Uh... that's what I said.  8-).

It's why I pointed out that I thought it wass generically useful (I
admit that it's generically useful mostly for administrators of
Samba and Appletalk servers, if that's any consolation.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.