Date: Sat, 20 Nov 1999 01:38:23 -0800 (PST) From: Sean Eric Fagan <sef@kithrup.com> To: cvs-all@freebsd.org, cvs-committers@freebsd.org Subject: PHK: "Shut up and go away quietly" Message-ID: <199911200938.BAA22687@kithrup.com>
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That is what a message PHK sent to me boils down to. (I have shown this
message to several other people, so it's not just _me_ who interpreted it that
way.)
At least one other person has gotten an almost-identical message from PHK.
When I responded with my usual speed, with as terse and polite a response as I
could ("I don't think so"), he made not-so-veiled threats implying that if I
did not leave gracefully, I would be forced to leave.
This started when I requested that he send future changes to procfs by me
first; this request is because I have picked up active development of procfs
(having about 500 lines of changes, in three different versions) and he had
just checked in a change that violated the basic security paradigm procfs
uses. (The fact that it's violated in the roughly the same way elsewhere in
the kernel is another matter.)
I had a lot more to say, but it boils down to: I never left, and I am not
going to. But I do want to know why PHK is allowed to ignore complaints and
make threats. I'm not the first person to ask that question.
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