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To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
cc: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG,
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/top machine.c 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 31 May 1997 11:57:32 PDT."
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Date: Sun, 01 Jun 1997 21:04:53 -0700
From: Paul Traina <pst@shockwave.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