From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 13 14:37:20 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA28302 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 13 Nov 1997 14:37:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from dns (dns.ida.net [204.228.203.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id OAA28293 for ; Thu, 13 Nov 1997 14:37:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cmott@srv.net) Received: from darkstar.home (dialin1.anlw.anl.gov [141.221.254.101]) by dns (SMI-8.6/mail.byaddr) with SMTP id PAA01779 for ; Thu, 13 Nov 1997 15:32:00 -0700 Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 15:37:08 -0700 (MST) From: Charles Mott X-Sender: cmott@darkstar.home Reply-To: Charles Mott To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sean Eric Fagin's posting In-Reply-To: <199711132030.MAA16638@kithrup.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk [Very informative summary by Sean nipped.] > (And, yes, I find Jordan's attitude that nobody should care, since there are > other things that can be done to destroy a system, offensive. Just as > offensive as Intel's official suggestion that you can always reboot your > system.) If you do write a kernel patch, you might make it available on the web to those who are interested. This is sometimes the best way to deal with things that are controversial. I don't think Jordan's attitude is really that offensive (although his mailing list persona is sort of grumpy). I am actually more interested that the operating system be made more solid in a general way rather than seeing people scrambling to deal with the crisis du jour. Charles Mott