From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Nov 14 03:51:19 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id DAA22635 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 14 Nov 1997 03:51:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from sos.freebsd.dk (sos.freebsd.dk [195.8.129.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id DAA22629 for ; Fri, 14 Nov 1997 03:51:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sos@sos.freebsd.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by sos.freebsd.dk (8.8.8/8.7.3) id MAA01829; Fri, 14 Nov 1997 12:51:31 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <199711141151.MAA01829@sos.freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: SUID-Directories patch In-Reply-To: <346C37F8.62319AC4@whistle.com> from Julian Elischer at "Nov 14, 97 03:37:28 am" To: julian@whistle.com (Julian Elischer) Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 12:51:31 +0100 (MET) Cc: sos@freebsd.dk, nate@mt.sri.com, tlambert@primenet.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: Søren Schmidt Reply-to: sos@freebsd.dk X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL30 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In reply to Julian Elischer who wrote: > > I've had real-life (TM) including a divorce, a 3 year time crunch > and a startup company, > to contend with and I think it's a it bloody cheak to bring up devfs > as a bad thing considerning no-one else has even TRIED to solve the > probelm it tries to solve, and no-one else has helped either. Oh, to make this short, I havn't had a divorce, but two kids, a wife, a fulltime job, a house, two cars, a cat, a garden etc etc so I know how it is not having the time... > I'd like nothing better than to have the time to do more on it. > (which incidentally I am getting a bit of now) Great!, may I suggest that you use the time to finish DEVFS, and do it so it can pass a review, then I'll promise you it will be welcomed with open arms. Dont waste the time by makeing new halfbaked features, which probably won't get in... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team Even more code to hack -- will it ever end ..