Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 09:22:31 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: des@des.no Cc: cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/init init.c Message-ID: <20040928.092231.110913237.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <xzpmzzb7ydx.fsf@dwp.des.no> References: <200409280422.i8S4Mu7g047371@repoman.freebsd.org> <xzpmzzb7ydx.fsf@dwp.des.no>
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des@des.no (Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav) writes:
: Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org> writes:
: > Log:
: > Turns out that revision 1.52 was a bad idea. It broke the long
: > standing ability to list a non-existant device in /etc/ttys to ke=
ep it
: > from dying. This is a documented feature of init(8):
: =
: Grr... you have no idea how much time I wasted trying to use this
: feature while it was broken :( Thanks for fixing it!
I'm sorry for my part in 1.52. I didn't understand what the
implications of the change were. When my boss asked me why I'd
glanced at it and didn't say anything, I had to do a lot of 'errr,
ummm, welll, I didn't think it would break anything' but I was clearly
wrong :-(.
Warner
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