From owner-freebsd-arch Thu May 2 14:40:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.92.13.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65CF937B417; Thu, 2 May 2002 14:40:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.3/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g42LeMbs044101; Thu, 2 May 2002 14:40:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g42Ld6Mf044093; Thu, 2 May 2002 14:39:06 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 14:39:06 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Terry Lambert Cc: arch@FreeBSD.org, John Baldwin Subject: Re: savcore dump names? Message-ID: <20020502143906.C40128@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: arch@FreeBSD.org Mail-Followup-To: arch@freebsd.org References: <20020502133256.A40128@dragon.nuxi.com> <3CD1AC8D.25458679@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3CD1AC8D.25458679@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Thu, May 02, 2002 at 02:15:57PM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 02:15:57PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > David O'Brien wrote: > > On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 02:02:29PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > > > So what happened to the request that savecore(8) go back to using > > > sensible, intuitive names instead of brain-damaged ones? > > > > The committer that took that feature away isn't interested in seeing > > things through to the end. > > > > Another reason we need an owner of each thing in the tree. > > So that if they get hit by a bus, we're screwed for all time? No Terry, a new "owner" would pop up. I know the strong down sides to what I said -- I also think people need to consider the strong downside with our anarchy. > Not to harp on you in particular, but your statement about > "isn't interested in seeing things through" is really > emotionally charged, and is exactly the wrong sort of thing. It is emotionally charged? It is simple fact. > I think the obvious thing to do is to wait a while for the > code to be completed, and then time out and back out the > changes, and let them be committed again later, only when they > are complete You don't seem quite up on the savecore(8) changes. Please go look at the logs -- we cannot simply back out rev 1.51. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message