From owner-freebsd-arch Fri May 3 2:24:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from softweyr.com (softweyr.com [65.88.244.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2468637B416; Fri, 3 May 2002 02:24:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from 66-75-153-50.san.rr.com ([66.75.153.50] helo=softweyr.com) by softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 173ZHC-0005qh-00; Fri, 03 May 2002 03:22:54 -0600 Message-ID: <3CD24946.8F3CB0A4@softweyr.com> Date: Fri, 03 May 2002 02:24:38 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: John Baldwin , Terry Lambert , arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: savcore dump names? References: <11645.1020410832@critter.freebsd.dk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > In message , John Baldwin writes: > > >So it is acceptable to come in and break existing functionality because > >you don't feel like finishing the job? I mean, come on, you had to do > >the work to change the code to make it break existing functionality. > >It would have been _less_ work to have left the code that respected > >minfree, etc. and kept the filenames the same as it is. > > > >IMO, it is unacceptable to come in and break stuff and then say it's > >not your problem to fix it. > > Sometimes you have to break the eggs to make an omelette. But killing the hens rarely helps. If you're actually admitting to leaving the job half-done, PHK, you should immediately commit to finishing it. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message