From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 21 20:55:00 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA02432 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 21 Oct 1997 20:55:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from plum.cyber.com.au (plum.cyber.com.au [203.7.155.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id UAA02426 for ; Tue, 21 Oct 1997 20:54:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from darrenr@cyber.com.au) Received: (from darrenr@localhost) by plum.cyber.com.au (8.6.12/8.6.6) id NAA03087; Wed, 22 Oct 1997 13:54:02 +1000 From: Darren Reed Message-Id: <199710220354.NAA03087@plum.cyber.com.au> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 3.0 kernel API ?! To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 13:54:01 +1000 (EST) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <16059.877490583@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Oct 21, 97 08:23:03 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In some mail I received from Jordan K. Hubbard, sie wrote > > > blah, time to giveup on FreeBSD and use Linux I think...at least Linus > > doesn't allow silly changes that achieve nothing and just cause more > > work. > > I think it's more likely time to stop bitching about things which > don't and never did merit such a degree of vitriol or personal > attachment. I suspect that you, like us, have better things to do > with your life than quibble over minutiae like this in the header > files and I strongly suggest that you simply get back to it rather > than continue to draw out what started as a pointless debate and has > only declined from there. Couldn't agree more. I've wondered a few times, how much time I've wasted on this thread compared with how long it would have taken me to accomodate this change in FreeBSD... Darren