Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 20:24:23 -0700 From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/savecore savecore.c Message-ID: <20020414032423.GA1584@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> In-Reply-To: <20020414110616.C75803@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <200204130820.g3D8KGx17608@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020413114643.A2860@espresso.q9media.com> <20020413180300.GB319@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> <20020414095708.S47408@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20020414005904.GA1287@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> <20020414110616.C75803@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 11:06:16AM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > > I have no intention to get lost in savecore issues while my only > > intention was to restore some basic functionality I felt was > > missing. > > Well, that looks like a savecore issue to me. Yes, definitely. It's the lost part that's key here. I don't think I'm lost yet, but will be if I'm not careful :-) > But if you add > functionality, you should describe it. The fixes look good, but if > nobody knows about them, who will use them? The change is a (partial) restoration of almost equivalent functionality. The -f option may need rewording. I obsoleted -d, which is undocumented anyway. So, the implementation is closer to what the manpage describes. You can say that the manpage is ahead of the implementation for once :-) The point is that the intend was to move ahead with savecore, to fill a gap without actually spending too much time on it. It simply doesn't have my interest beyond how it affects me. The hope was that with all the (small) steps forward, we'd have savecore close enough to what we want that more people would be willing to finish the job, rather than banking on a single person to build it up from where phk left it. Many hands make light work, I believe the phrase is... > > No threat, just consequence. No emotional reaction, just logic. > > I don't see very much logic there, nor consequence. That's perfectly alright; it's not important, really. -- Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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