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Subject: Re: Patch to talkd
From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami)
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 * 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! :-(

You don't sound like yourself, Jordan.  I thought you already knew
what a thankless job the "president" is! :>

Anyway, people are jumping all over it is because it was NOT broken
for some people (at least there was an easy work-around), and your
commit moved the problem.  Which made the default behavior (when you
don't pay much attention to ordering of ttys) more desirable for
others while the work-around went away.  If you take away a behavior
in the system that some people like, you can expect them to scream. :)

Oh, and the reason why more people comment on this than the NFS
locking -- maybe because it's easier to understand?

Satoshi