From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Sep 18 09:33:16 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA17256 for chat-outgoing; Thu, 18 Sep 1997 09:33:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from usr03.primenet.com (tlambert@usr03.primenet.com [206.165.6.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA17249 for ; Thu, 18 Sep 1997 09:33:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr03.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA18232; Thu, 18 Sep 1997 09:32:43 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199709181632.JAA18232@usr03.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Memory leak in getservbyXXX? To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 16:32:42 +0000 (GMT) Cc: softweyr@xmission.com, hoek@hwcn.org, tlambert@primenet.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <5080.874580197@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Sep 18, 97 03:56:37 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Now you have us humans, populating the earth in ever increasing > numbers and let's face it: even though few are willing to say it in so > many words just yet, unless our population growth declines extremely > rapidly and RSN, a heck of a lot of somebodies are going to have to go > at some point! Why Thomas Malthus, as you don't live or breathe! > discipline. Instead of working so damn hard to dumb-down each and > every single product, legislating heavily against any form of activity > which might be even remotely dangerous and nurturing a complex system > of liability laws which allow the stupid to collect rich rewards on > their unique ability to injure themselves, screw it, I say we throw > that whole approach out. We give up this silly crusade to file the > sharp edges off of everything in life and, instead, we leave the edges > alone Yeah... and we can call these products "Windows"... > and enhance our educational system with more "how to avoid > getting cut on the sharp edges of life" classes. Those students who > pay attention to the lessons and retain this knowledge survive and > those who hide in the boy's room smoking cigarettes and lack any > natural cunning in recompense, don't. No big loss at all. We can call the people who pass these classes "Microsoft Certified Engineers". 8-) 8-). > I figure this would replace the lions and tigers and other useful > natural hazards which we used to have but have long since eradicated. Hey, what biodiversity advocate could argue with that? 8-). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.