Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 13:26:07 -0500 (EST) From: Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.algebra.com> To: des@ofug.org Cc: arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: review request for bin/11294 Message-ID: <200203261826.g2QIQ7p0011209@aldan.algebra.com> In-Reply-To: <xzpit7md0a3.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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On 24 Mar, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.algebra.com> writes: >> But this implementation has drawbacks, that mine does not, IMHO: >> >> . the configuration is system wide -- which is not neccessarily >> desirable; >> [...] > > This and all your other objections can be fixed using a global > variable that overrides the symlink (or an API function that sets the > target host). My primary objection is that the problem you are solving -- logging to some other host by default -- is different from mine -- logging to some other host at the caller's discretion. Yes, the caller can call the new API function you suggest (or set a global variable itself, which is uglier, IMHO). But the only drawback of my idea, that was pointed out so far is that it _adds a new API call_. If such an addition _can_ be tolerated -- and it looks from your response like it can -- I think, solving my problem your way is inferior to my proposed solution. Which is not to say, the solution you provided is inferior over all -- it is just for a different problem. -mi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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