Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 16:44:46 -0500 (EST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@ki.net> To: Mark Crispin <MRC@CAC.Washington.EDU> Cc: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>, terry@lambert.org, j@uriah.heep.sax.de, roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: /var/mail (was: re: Help, permission problems...) Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.95.961030164111.8183K-100000@quagmire.ki.net> In-Reply-To: <MailManager.846701797.335.mrc@Ikkoku-Kan.Panda.COM>
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On Wed, 30 Oct 1996, Mark Crispin wrote: > 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. > Ummm...this argument doesn't quite hold water...the start of this whole discussion was an email to you asking about an error message that had insufficent data for me to determine the problem, and, therefore, the solution. The only reason I even thought about permissions problem when I sent you that email was because the last time it happened, after searching through the code trying to figure out *why* it was happening for several hours, I sent you email and you sent me back the solution to my problem :( Marc G. Fournier scrappy@ki.net Systems Administrator @ ki.net scrappy@freebsd.org
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