From owner-freebsd-current Tue Sep 29 23:46:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA06918 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 23:46:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA06910 for ; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 23:46:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA20332; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 23:35:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) To: obrien@NUXI.com cc: Studded , Terry Lambert , Narvi , dan@math.berkeley.edu, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: time for some new man pages In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 29 Sep 1998 17:04:15 PDT." <19980929170415.A29583@nuxi.com> Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 23:35:12 -0700 Message-ID: <20328.907137312@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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? For what it's worth, I agree with you. It was an ill-advised change, on par with the compat slice debacle and several other ill-advised changes in the past, and a lot of people apparently agree on this. I've also argued myself blue in the face with Justin over this one and he's just 100% sold on this change as somehow necessary and good so there's not much profit in arguing with him further. I do not agree, but Justin's the architect and it doesn't appear that changing his mind is an option at this point. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message