From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 30 13:34:50 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA02087 for current-outgoing; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 13:34:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU (sdennis@tomobiki-cho.cac.washington.edu [128.95.135.58]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA02080 for ; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 13:34:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from Ikkoku-Kan.Panda.COM by Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU (8.7.5/UW-NDC Revision: 2.28 ) id NAA16267; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 13:34:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost by Ikkoku-Kan.Panda.COM (NX5.67e/UW-NDC/Panda Revision: 2.27.MRC ) id AA02761; Wed, 30 Oct 96 13:34:32 -0800 Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 10:56:37 -0800 (PST) From: Mark Crispin Subject: Re: /var/mail (was: re: Help, permission problems...) To: Joe Greco Cc: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, terry@lambert.org, j@uriah.heep.sax.de, roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, current@FreeBSD.org, scrappy@ki.net In-Reply-To: <199610301451.IAA25819@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 30 Oct 1996 08:51:27 -0600 (CST), Joe Greco wrote: > Has it ever dawned on you that if you were to make this sort of policy > decision bubble up to the surface via a Configure-like mechanism, in the > manner that Elm does, that this would completely solve your problem? No, this won't. Most people who have systems and install software do not know what an fcntl is. Most people who have systems and install software don't even build their own software. If you are smart enough to know what the right answer is to "use fcntl or lock file", and understand all the implications of that decision when your system is in a heterogenuous NFS cluster, then you are smart enough to know how to look at the code and find the compile-time option to turn off a warning message. Do you even use the software in question? If not, then shut up and leave the discussion to those who have a stake in the question.