Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 19:01:41 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> Cc: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>, Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SUID-Directories patch Message-ID: <14187.879562901@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 14 Nov 1997 19:54:04 MST." <199711150254.TAA17745@rocky.mt.sri.com>
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> The code isn't non-functional, but it is dys-functional. I think that's > the crux of Jordan argument, that it isn't up to the users/developers of > -current to flesh out/finish the work. Or even 'macro-debug' it. Precisely. History has also shown us that this invariably doesn't even work, said code having a far greater tendency to rot rather than get fixed. Did not Julian himself start his defense of DEVFS with a comment that he'd gotten none of the help he'd hoped for? I rest my case. :) Jordan
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