Date: Sun, 01 Jun 1997 21:04:53 -0700 From: Paul Traina <pst@shockwave.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-usrbin@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/top machine.c Message-ID: <199706020404.VAA25916@precipice.shockwave.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 31 May 1997 11:57:32 PDT." <23304.865105052@time.cdrom.com>
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I have to disagree with you slightly. The impact of rc.conf was absolutely NOTHING compared to the impact caused by mucking with fundamental system constants. :-\ (1/2 smile) From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/top machine.c > From: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG> > Subject: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/top machine.c > > Back out the long username patch that came across when this was tagged >>fr om > -current. It's not applicable to this branch (yet). > > Yet? It bloody well never should be applicable to 2.2. > > Do you realize how much userland code would break if we upped the namespace > in 2.2? Seconded. /etc/rc.conf was bad enough, and I only sync'd it there because it was my most available testing platform. Repeating my somewhat risky manouver there with username lengths would be nothing less than a fiasco. At least people can still leave their old and mouldy /etc dirs around in the face of my change to RELENG_2_2 and still function just fine. Jordan
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