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From: "Jukka A. Ukkonen" <jau@oxit.fi>
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Subject: Re: standards/107561: Missing SUS function tcgetsid()
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The following reply was made to PR standards/107561; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Jukka A. Ukkonen" <jau@oxit.fi>
To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org
Cc: jau@iki.fi
Subject: Re: standards/107561: Missing SUS function tcgetsid()
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 20:43:55 +0200

 	I was just wondering... Isn't this such a small and
 	straight forward change that it could be included in
 	the current for a short while without too much fuzz
 	and then be merged to the 6-STABLE series at least?
 
 	Importing as many compatibility features as possible
 	to the head as quickly as possible will probably only
 	provoke more people to donate more compatibility
 	features in an ever increasing pace, which I guess
 	should be a good thing for the FreeBSD community.
 
 	Holding back relatively simple and safe new features
 	for a long time while letting the patches linger in the
 	change request queue does not really buy any safety
 	or stability to the system.
 	It only discourages everybody from donating more of
 	these relatively safe features, because donating them
 	will not really get them automatically back to the user
 	as a part of the canonical package within a meaningful
 	time frame. If people end up rolling their own time
 	after time, what is the point in donating anything?
 
 	Normal human attention span for simple things is in
 	the range of 2-4 weeks, which is actually plenty.
 	After that people get bored and begin to avoid
 	contributing anything at all.
 
 	// jau