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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: Fixit Floppy Broken?
To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 14:33:59 -0700 (MST)
Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, handy@sxt2.space.lockheed.com
In-Reply-To: <199603311902.VAA00526@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Mar 31, 96 09:02:40 pm
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> As Paul Traina wrote:
> 
> >   Our floppy driver is not smart enough about write-protected media at
> >   open(2) time.
> > 
> > That is a bug.  Please file a PR
> 
> Filing a PR won't help very much.  The floppy driver is in bad need
> for a rewrite.
> 
> If you're willing to rewrite it, and submitting PRs would accelerate
> this process, i could immediately submit half a dozen PRs for it. :-)

You should submit them even if there is no victim^H^H^H^H^Holunteer
at the present time.  All bugs should be recorded somewhere.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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