Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 00:26:11 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc inetd.conf src/usr.sbin/inetd Makefile inetd.c Message-ID: <199907150726.AAA00946@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 15 Jul 1999 00:12:01 MDT." <199907150612.AAA68643@harmony.village.org>
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> : > Was this commit approved/sponsored by anyone? There has been some controversy > : > about whether this is behaviour which is wanted in the base system. > : > : Noone had any specific reasons not to have it. Some people had the > : reservation that it should not be default, and so I made it off by > : default. > > I think that Brian has done the right thing here. He answered all the > objections that I came up with... > > Besides, committers are presumed to know what they are doing and to > have excersized the appropriate judgement. No prior approval is > generally needed. I'd have to say I support Brian's judgement here, although on reflection I think that leaving the code #idfef'ed out is a bad idea, as it exposes it to potential unchecked rot. By all means leave the service disabled in the standard inetd.conf and make it possible to elide it (along with the other internal services) if required. -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ -- Joseph Merrick \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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