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Date:      Mon, 19 Apr 1999 10:33:12 +0930 (CST)
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        Brian Beattie <beattie@aracnet.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Greg Black <gjb-freebsd@gba.oz.au>, "C. Stephen Gunn" <csg@physics.purdue.edu>
Subject:   Re: Entombing for FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <XFMail.990419103312.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9904161333210.22567-100000@shell2.aracnet.com>

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On 16-Apr-99 Brian Beattie wrote:
>  I am philosophically opposed to this type of feature, I believe it
>  promotes slovenly work habits.  On the other hand as a practical matter it
>  would probably save a lot of time, when dealing with non-professionals.

Professionals don't make mistakes? wow. I don't know any then. ;)

>  I would also agree that libc hacking is a poor route.

I think its more useful than kernel hacking.. (ie reading enviromental
variables from the kernel would be difficult AFAIK)

---
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
  -- Andrew Tanenbaum


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