Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 23:25:34 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: nate@mt.sri.com, chuckr@glue.umd.edu, julian@whistle.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SUID-Directories patch Message-ID: <199711150425.XAA01801@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <14187.879562901@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Nov 14, 97 07:01:41 pm"
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Jordan K. Hubbard said: > > The code isn't non-functional, but it is dys-functional. I think that's > > the crux of Jordan argument, that it isn't up to the users/developers of > > -current to flesh out/finish the work. Or even 'macro-debug' it. > > Precisely. History has also shown us that this invariably doesn't > even work, said code having a far greater tendency to rot rather than > get fixed. Did not Julian himself start his defense of DEVFS with a > comment that he'd gotten none of the help he'd hoped for? > > I rest my case. :) > I sure hope that dys-functional isn't short for dyson-functional :-). -- John dyson@freebsd.org jdyson@nc.com
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