From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 13 22:46:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from border.dreamworks.com (dreamworks.com [209.179.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 36D8A14F5C for ; Tue, 13 Jul 1999 22:46:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from abs@anim.dreamworks.com) Received: from cynic.anim.dreamworks.com by border.dreamworks.com via smtpd (for hub.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.18]) with SMTP; 14 Jul 1999 05:46:41 UT Received: from localhost (abs@localhost) by cynic.anim.dreamworks.com (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA23132; Tue, 13 Jul 1999 22:43:18 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: cynic.anim.dreamworks.com: abs owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 22:43:17 -0700 (PDT) From: David Brownlee To: Matthew Dillon Cc: Jason Thorpe , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, tech-userlevel@netbsd.org Subject: Re: Replacement for grep(1) (part 2) In-Reply-To: <199907132156.OAA81180@apollo.backplane.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > Jason, I am using real life situations to demonstrate my point. You are > perfectly welcome to use your own REAL-LIFE situations to demonstrate > yours. It is the real-life application that matters, not a worst-case > nightmare theory. No engineer designs systems based on nightmare > theories. Sorry - had to reply to this. I have an Aero-engineer friend who took some exception to that last sentence. They're like that :) Back on topic: Obviously you devote the most time to handling the most common and serious failure modes, but if someone else if willing to put in the work to handle nightmare cases, should you ignore or discard that work? Put more accurately - if someone wants to provide a different rope to permit people to write in a different defensive style, and it does not in any way impact your use of the system: More power to them. David/absolute -=- Sue me, screw me, walk right through me -=- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message