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> > Funny, my bigget rant has to do with people going "Why doesn't FreeBSD
> > have feature XXX?!" rather than "Here are my diffs to support feature
> > XXX, please integrate them."
> 
> And would you?  If I had come along with the diffs for doing it this
> way, you'd have said (with some justification) "Go away, we don't want
> all this crap in the kernel".  I was, in fact, considering doing the
> implementation, but I see that it's not the way to go.

NFS server locking, anyone?

<...ducks...>


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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