From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Apr 18 17:59:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E98614C8D for ; Sun, 18 Apr 1999 17:59:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from lot.gsoft.com.au (lot.gsoft.com.au [203.38.152.106]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA20984; Mon, 19 Apr 1999 10:26:42 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 10:33:12 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Brian Beattie Subject: Re: Entombing for FreeBSD Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Greg Black , "C. Stephen Gunn" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message