Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 10:30:36 +0100 (BST) From: Mark Valentine <mark@thuvia.demon.co.uk> To: phk@critter.freebsd.dk (Poul-Henning Kamp), "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libdisk Makefile chunk.c write_alpha_disk.c write_i386_disk.c write_pc98_disk.c Message-ID: <200210250930.g9P9UaP1064766@dotar.thuvia.org> In-Reply-To: <mailpost.1035534362.63189@thuvia.demon.co.uk>
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> From: phk@critter.freebsd.dk (Poul-Henning Kamp) > Date: Fri 25 Oct, 2002 > Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libdisk Makefile chunk.c write_alpha_disk.c write_i386_disk.c write_pc98_disk.c > In message <20021024.180717.57021784.imp@bsdimp.com>, "M. Warner Losh" writes: > >Oh Come off of it Poul. You broke existing practice. Admit it. The > >convention has existed since the deep, dark past. It was well > >established in FreeBSD as smelling right. Sure, it didn't smell right > >to a sysV person, but that's irrelevant. > > Please research our history on this topic: you need to go back 4 > years or so. > > The amount of jubilation in Jordans commit messages to rev 1.51.2.59 and > 1.106 to src/usr.sbin/sysinstall/config.c is not without reason. However, so far it's been possible to largely ignore this unnecessary double level of partitioning. Cheers, Mark. -- Mark Valentine, Thuvia Labs <mark@thuvia.co.uk> <http://www.thuvia.co.uk>; "Tigers will do ANYTHING for a tuna fish sandwich." Mark Valentine uses "We're kind of stupid that way." *munch* *munch* and endorses FreeBSD -- <http://www.calvinandhobbes.com>; <http://www.freebsd.org>; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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