From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 18 23:45:09 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id XAA13048 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 18 Sep 1995 23:45:09 -0700 Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id XAA13043 for ; Mon, 18 Sep 1995 23:45:08 -0700 Received: (from julian@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id XAA03505; Mon, 18 Sep 1995 23:44:52 -0700 From: Julian Elischer Message-Id: <199509190644.XAA03505@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: why is this not a bug in namei? To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 23:44:52 -0700 (PDT) Cc: terry@lambert.org, hackers@freefall.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199509190636.XAA03898@corbin.Root.COM> from "David Greenman" at Sep 18, 95 11:36:03 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 613 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I really wish that people would spend more time on fixing real problems > with the source code and not just changing it to fit their own non-KNF style. > It's only going to result in a lot more work later when someone has to go > back and "fix" all of it. which would you rather.. have a working piece of code that needs to be reformatted, or to have to write it from scratch.. at least if it already works, then you can morph it while hopefully not breaking it. If you want to rewrite it from scratch you get a lot more debugging time thrown in for free :) ok. I hope there are no replies to this.. eh?