From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 12 12:10:24 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA24359 for current-outgoing; Mon, 12 Feb 1996 12:10:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA24331 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 1996 12:10:17 -0800 (PST) Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; (5.65/1.1.8.2/19Aug95-0530PM) id AA23570; Mon, 12 Feb 1996 15:10:12 -0500 Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 15:10:12 -0500 From: "Garrett A. Wollman" Message-Id: <9602122010.AA23570@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: Terry Lambert Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anybody using netns? In-Reply-To: <199602121951.MAA20631@phaeton.artisoft.com> References: <9602121907.AA23894@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> <199602121951.MAA20631@phaeton.artisoft.com> Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk < said: >> Because they bloat the source tree with useless code? > There isn't room for them in compressed format on 2 600+M CDROMS? I'm not in the CD-ROM business and couldn't care less how much space they take in that medium. I do care about how much space they take up on people's hard disks. >> Because they mostly duplicate functionality found elsewhere? > Where else is XNS implemented? Nowhere. That's the whole point: nobody uses it, and we've get this rotting source code in our tree that hasn't been maintained for ages. I don't want to ship garbage with our kernel! -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant