From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Feb 5 02:46:45 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA28593 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 5 Feb 1999 02:46:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA28585 for ; Fri, 5 Feb 1999 02:46:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) id TAA11083; Fri, 5 Feb 1999 19:46:10 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <36BAAAC3.469DAA06@newsguy.com> Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 17:24:35 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sheldon Hearn CC: Mike Smith , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Incredibly bad ideas References: <64244.918164186@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > Is this a misperception? If the vast majority of users wanted something > that was an incredibly bad idea, would it be adopted within FreeBSD or > turfed out? It just so happens that when a vast majority of users want something, quite a few of them happen to be committers too, and thus make the notion of what is an "incredibly bad idea" a little confusing. Case in point, sendfile(). Without laying down any judgment, I have heard plenty convincing opinions that this is an "incredibly bad idea". I, myself, can't shake a feeling that this a hack. But there were plenty people clamoring for it, and I guess there were committers/core members that did not think it as an "incredibly bad idea". So, while the theoretical question is interesting, I guess it will never happen in reality. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com Well, as a computer geek, I have to believe in the binary universe. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message