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Date:      Tue, 26 Sep 1995 00:08:24 -0500 (CDT)
From:      peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
To:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ports startup scripts
Message-ID:  <199509260508.AAA29177@bonkers.taronga.com>
In-Reply-To: <199509260343.XAA14628@healer.com> from "Coranth Gryphon" at Sep 25, 95 11:43:33 pm

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> It's not that SysV confuses me, it's that I think it is a LOUSY DESIGN.
> Personal opinion, which is a matter of a lot of experience. I've been
> doing unix system and programming admin for about 10 years. And I like
> the BSD way over the SysV way.

Argument from authority?

I've been doing it for 15 years, including working on the 4.1C and 4.2 BSD
distributions, and I *hate* anything that depends on editing config files
safely.

The only system I've seen that has worked with autoedited files... and
this will really make you cringe... is Microsoft Windows. Their config
files actually have the hooks to do it right.

Of course they don't have concurrency problems, at least until NT.



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