From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Nov 14 20:26:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA28519 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 14 Nov 1997 20:26:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA28514 for ; Fri, 14 Nov 1997 20:25:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.7/8.8.5) id XAA01801; Fri, 14 Nov 1997 23:25:34 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" Message-Id: <199711150425.XAA01801@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: SUID-Directories patch In-Reply-To: <14187.879562901@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Nov 14, 97 07:01:41 pm" To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 23:25:34 -0500 (EST) Cc: nate@mt.sri.com, chuckr@glue.umd.edu, julian@whistle.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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