Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 02:16:28 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> To: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: a BSD identd Message-ID: <49928.931911388@axl.noc.iafrica.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 12 Jul 1999 15:12:49 -0400." <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907121509580.50180-100000@janus.syracuse.net>
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On Mon, 12 Jul 1999 15:12:49 -0400, "Brian F. Feldman" wrote:
> It's "out with the bad, in with the good." Pidentd code is pretty
> terrible.
Hi Brian,
I let your comment above go at the time that you said it and I waited
for Kevin Day to substantiate similar claims. Kevin very kindly took
the time to submit a PR which has helped me demonstrate to him that
the problems which he was seeing that led him to declare pidentd buggy
were in fact caused by a bug (bugs?) in the version of inetd that he's
running.
So while I take to heart Mike Smith's comments ("I'm ... worried about
... where the seniority of a code entity is considered more significant
than its functionality") I do think that this exercise serves no purpose
as long as pidentd is doing its job properly.
For detail on the inetd bugs causing apparent pidentd instability, I
invite you to examine PR 12596. If you feel there are other problems
with pidentd, I invite you to take Kevin's lead and file a PR.
Ciao,
Sheldon.
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