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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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