From owner-freebsd-current Mon Mar 25 10:35:46 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA22166 for current-outgoing; Mon, 25 Mar 1996 10:35:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from skiddaw.elsevier.co.uk (skiddaw.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.222.60]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA22151 for ; Mon, 25 Mar 1996 10:35:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from snowdon.elsevier.co.uk (snowdon.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.197.164]) by skiddaw.elsevier.co.uk (8.6.13/8.6.12) with ESMTP id SAA26641 for ; Mon, 25 Mar 1996 18:33:39 GMT Received: from tees by snowdon with SMTP (PP); Mon, 25 Mar 1996 18:27:55 +0000 Received: (from dpr@localhost) by tees (SMI-8.6/8.6.12) id SAA09083; Mon, 25 Mar 1996 18:33:45 GMT From: Paul Richards Message-Id: <199603251833.SAA09083@tees> Subject: Re: Patch to talkd To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 18:33:44 +0000 (GMT) Cc: rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com, asami@cs.berkeley.edu, gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org, paul@netcraft.co.uk, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, loodvrij@gridpoint.com In-Reply-To: <27911.827775158@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Mar 25, 96 09:32:38 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In reply to Jordan K. Hubbard who said > > Bleah. I'm going to stop committing these trivial changes - everyone > jumps all over them with far more enthusiasm than they ever exhibit > for the truly broken stuff, and it's more than a little annoying to > spend 3 days debating something minor only to have everyone go > completely silent when I try to get any help on something _majorly_ > hosed! :-( Well, strangely, it's probably for the opposite reasons you might assume, certainly in my case anyway. When I see a "trivial" patch that I think could possibly be undesirable I just ignore it rather than look into what the actual ramifications are since there are bigger more important problems to worry about. It's not until you actually commit that patch that I was happily going to forget about that I think more seriously about it. I bet it's the same with other people as well. This is hardly serious anyway, we could run with it this way for a while and see what actually happens in practice. Now, on to something else, can someone recommend a good book on Sparcs, all I have during the week is a Sun 5 so I might as well learn something about it. -- Paul Richards. Originative Solutions Ltd. (Netcraft Ltd. contractor) Elsevier Science TIS online journal project. Email: p.richards@elsevier.co.uk Phone: 0370 462071 (Mobile), +44 (0)1865 843155