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Date:      Fri, 03 May 2002 09:27:12 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, arch@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: savcore dump names? 
Message-ID:  <11645.1020410832@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 02 May 2002 18:23:36 EDT." <XFMail.20020502182336.jhb@FreeBSD.org> 

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In message <XFMail.20020502182336.jhb@FreeBSD.org>, John Baldwin writes:

>So it is acceptable to come in and break existing functionality because
>you don't feel like finishing the job?  I mean, come on, you had to do
>the work to change the code to make it break existing functionality.
>It would have been _less_ work to have left the code that respected
>minfree, etc. and kept the filenames the same as it is.
>
>IMO, it is unacceptable to come in and break stuff and then say it's
>not your problem to fix it.

Sometimes you have to break the eggs to make an omelette.

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Poul-Henning Kamp       | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
phk@FreeBSD.ORG         | TCP/IP since RFC 956
FreeBSD committer       | BSD since 4.3-tahoe    
Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.

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