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Date:      Wed, 16 Sep 1998 12:30:51 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl>
Cc:        Alexander Tatmaniants <tat@Spline.NET>, Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Help, DEVFS/MFS is broken... 
Message-ID:  <4573.905941851@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 16 Sep 1998 12:32:24 %2B0200." <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9809161228370.27453-100000@korin.warman.org.pl> 

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In message <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9809161228370.27453-100000@korin.warman.org.pl>, Andrzej Bialeck
i writes:
>On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>
>> 
>> Julian, 
>> 
>> There is no need to act all surprised about this.  We made a clear agreement
>> in New Orleans, and this is the result of it.
>
>But it's not only Julian who is surprised. In the meantime some people
>(including me) started using this code - I can testify it was far from
>being perfect, but it worked most of the time. Perhaps it would be better
>to leave this code in the tree, including short note discouraging its
>use, instead of completely nuking it without any replacement...

Sorry, no.  That is known to be a serious road-block to ever get it done right,
apart from the considerable obfuscation coefficient of this stuff.

--
Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
"ttyv0" -- What UNIX calls a $20K state-of-the-art, 3D, hi-res color terminal

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