From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon Feb 12 08:55:55 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA10724 for bugs-outgoing; Mon, 12 Feb 1996 08:55:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA10669 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 1996 08:55:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id RAA11359; Mon, 12 Feb 1996 17:53:05 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id RAA03302; Mon, 12 Feb 1996 17:52:50 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id RAA29840; Mon, 12 Feb 1996 17:49:32 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199602121649.RAA29840@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: bin/984 To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 17:49:31 +0100 (MET) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org, hsu@clinet.fi Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199602091843.FAA20758@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Feb 10, 96 05:43:49 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Bruce Evans wrote: > > >> For ideological reasons. > > >Not only. :) > It has never been necessary. This still wasted useless space in aligning things to a ficticuous ``cylinder boundary''. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)