From owner-freebsd-audit Tue Nov 30 11:51:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-audit@freebsd.org Received: from jade.chc-chimes.com (jade.chc-chimes.com [216.28.46.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76B74159FB; Tue, 30 Nov 1999 11:51:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from billf@chc-chimes.com) Received: by jade.chc-chimes.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 75EA21C66; Tue, 30 Nov 1999 13:52:28 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jade.chc-chimes.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72184381B; Tue, 30 Nov 1999 13:52:28 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 13:52:28 -0500 (EST) From: Bill Fumerola To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Kris Kennaway , Matthew Dillon , Dan Moschuk , arch@FreeBSD.ORG, audit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf files.i386 src/sys/kern kern_fork.c src/sys/libkern arc4random.c src/sys/sys libkern.h In-Reply-To: <91218.943989222@zippy.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-audit@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > You're too newly-minted an admin to have an informed opinion about > this, I hate to say. People who've been doing Unix since the 70's > have different definitions of "defined" since anything you use for > over 10 years becomes "defined" whether it's written down anywhere or > not, and there are thousands of examples of this around. There's nothing like the "I'm older and have been doing this longer." to explain something. I still say that there are too many external factors in the old linear system to depend on getting a certain pid. -- - bill fumerola - billf@chc-chimes.com - BF1560 - computer horizons corp - - ph:(800) 252-2421 - bfumerol@computerhorizons.com - billf@FreeBSD.org - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-audit" in the body of the message