Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 08:28:01 +0100 From: Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net> Cc: Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk>, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Mark Newton <newton@internode.com.au>, hm@hcs.de, nick.hibma@jrc.it, Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>, Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.ORG>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Microsoft performance (was: All this and documentation too? (was: cvs commit: src/sys/isa sio.c)) Message-ID: <19990626082801.A67145@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9906231916230.393-100000@picnic.mat.net>; from Chuck Robey on Wed, Jun 23, 1999 at 07:20:56PM -0400 References: <19990623233357.A43818@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9906231916230.393-100000@picnic.mat.net>
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Hi Chuck,
On Wed, Jun 23, 1999 at 07:20:56PM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote:
> But one thing I like is, although FreeBSD *does* try to appease user
> demands, it's controlled by programmers, not users, so if something is
> a technically extemely evil idea, no matter how the masses yell for it,
> it will NOT happen.
Programmers need documentation too.
N
--
[intentional self-reference] can be easily accommodated using a blessed,
non-self-referential dummy head-node whose own object destructor severs
the links.
-- Tom Christiansen in <375143b5@cs.colorado.edu>
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