From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Apr 30 0: 1:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from winston.osd.bsdi.com (adsl-64-173-15-98.dsl.sntc01.pacbell.net [64.173.15.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83E4F37B424 for ; Mon, 30 Apr 2001 00:01:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@osd.bsdi.com) Received: from localhost (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by winston.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.3/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f3U711309139; Mon, 30 Apr 2001 00:01:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@osd.bsdi.com) To: mwm@mired.org Cc: juha@saarinen.org, dan@langille.org, chris@jeah.net, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: tail In-Reply-To: <15084.62729.75795.555796@guru.mired.org> References: <15084.62729.75795.555796@guru.mired.org> X-Mailer: Mew version 1.94.1 on Emacs 20.7 / Mule 4.0 (HANANOEN) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20010430000101U.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 00:01:01 -0700 From: Jordan Hubbard X-Dispatcher: imput version 20000228(IM140) Lines: 12 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG From: Mike Meyer Subject: RE: tail Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 00:15:53 -0500 > On Unix, it's generally more important to make sure the user can shoot > anything they want than it is to keep the user from shooting > themselves in the foot. How does that quote go, "Unix doesn't stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things." - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message