Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 18:44:52 -0400 (EDT) From: Mikhail Teterin <mi@misha.cisco.com> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: swap-related problems Message-ID: <199904142244.SAA96731@misha.cisco.com> In-Reply-To: <91577.924128119@axl.noc.iafrica.com> from Sheldon Hearn at "Apr 15, 1999 00:15:19 am"
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Sheldon Hearn once wrote: > > : 3. Send patches. > > > > And I certainly don't care enough to do that!-) > So, what? You're just arguing for fun? If so, then you and everyone > else doing like wise can just piss the hell off. I, for one, was arguing because I saw a number of people ask about this over the last years. Instead of being told "sorry, we do not comply with this part of ANSI standard for reasons such and such", this people were told how they have to be better sysadmins and what not. This time around, it took several days of a long thread for somebody to admit _the problem exists_. People are sensitive about this -- you yourself had to resort to using a notion refering to physiology AND a notion of religious nature to express your feelings... To avoid this discussion in the future, Handbook, FAQ, and malloc(3) should be updated to reflect the fact, that FreeBSD's malloc does NOT indeed to conform to ANSI/C, strictly speaking. All good arguments as to why this is good for someone's health can also go there. A TODO list can have an entry about this, because ANSI compliance is A Good Thing(TM), is not it? -mi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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