From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jul 20 9:52:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from beppo.feral.com (beppo.feral.com [192.67.166.79]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A28B37B403 for ; Fri, 20 Jul 2001 09:52:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from beppo (mjacob@beppo [192.67.166.79]) by beppo.feral.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f6KGqaS84248; Fri, 20 Jul 2001 09:52:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 09:52:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob X-Sender: mjacob@beppo Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Bill Moran Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [OT] POLA? (was Re: Default retry behaviour for mount_nfs) In-Reply-To: <3B58601D.ACB852A5@iowna.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 'Principle of Least Astonishment' and something we should import from NetBSD: pilt > uname -a NetBSD pilt 1.5.1_ALPHA NetBSD 1.5.1_ALPHA (PILT) #5: Thu Feb 8 12:01:03 PST 2001 mjacob@pilt:/export/src/NetBSD-1.5/syssrc/sys/arch/i386/compile/PILT i386 pilt > /usr/games/wtf POLA POLA: principle of least astonishment pilt > /usr/games/wtf IIRC IIRC: if I recall correctly I'll leave it up to you all to imagine what 'wtf WTF' is. On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Bill Moran wrote: > > > > > Sometimes the stick of POLA should be broken. > > Off topic, I know, but it's going to bother me. > > What's POLA? > > -Bill > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message