From owner-freebsd-current Tue Sep 29 19:05:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA28926 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 19:05:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA28915 for ; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 19:05:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA16077; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 18:58:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from current1.whistle.com(207.76.205.22) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpdE16074; Wed Sep 30 01:58:18 1998 Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 18:58:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: "David O'Brien" cc: Studded , Terry Lambert , Narvi , dan@math.berkeley.edu, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: time for some new man pages In-Reply-To: <19980929170415.A29583@nuxi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, David O'Brien wrote: > > I'd really be interested in a survey about this change. I'm willing to > bet that to most a SCSI disk is simply that a *S*CSI *D*isk. FreeBSD has > now added yet one more incompatibility (or if you prefer, yet something > different, aka NIH) to the Unix world. > > What ever happened to the policy of least supprise? I called it sd because that's what it seemed to be called on most other systems. (POLA) Apparently Justin disagrees. He's doing the code. It would probably require a large core vote to change it.. personally I think it's a gratuitous change, but I've done worse myself. I doubt that it would cause much long term heartache. julian > > -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message