Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 02:27:45 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Vanderhoek <ac199@hwcn.org> To: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.org> Cc: frank@exit.com, bsmith@bfmni.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/ping ping.c Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980828022525.213A-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <199808280328.WAA28804@detlev.UUCP>
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[moved to -chat, since, while this may be -hackers material, nobody ain't gonna du nut'n about it] On Thu, 27 Aug 1998, Joel Ray Holveck wrote: > > I would have less objection to a change making the ping run for, > > say, six or eight hours before automatically shutting off. That's > > long enough (for my purposes) that I would probably never hit the > > auto-shutoff time, and it still quits by itself after a while. > > I disagree. An auto-shutoff violates POLA. Or, more strongly stated, it adheres to POMA. It is 100% guaranteed to shut-off when you least expect it and will find it the most puzzling trying to figure-out wtf happened. -- This .sig is not innovative, witty, or profund. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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