Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 22:39:55 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> To: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/security/pidentd/patches patch-ak patch-al Message-ID: <70427.931984795@axl.noc.iafrica.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 14 Jul 1999 16:29:30 -0400." <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907141628030.12940-100000@janus.syracuse.net>
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On Wed, 14 Jul 1999 16:29:30 -0400, "Brian F. Feldman" wrote: > I'm not sidelining anything. Now you can easily move to the "test this." > stage. (feedback) And I'm preventing -CURRENT users from having this type > of problem in the future. I call it side-lining because I'm not convinced that your change, whether good or bad, addresses a real problem. And proposed fixes to problems that don't exist give me the creeps. Think about it. I'm looking into the only open PR on this problem. I work alongside the submitter and reach the point where we know that at least 2 / 3 of his symptoms have nothing to do with pidentd. I try and fail to reproduce the 3rd reported symptom. When I ask the submitter to try again with a working inetd, you propose a fix for the 3rd (as yet unreproducible) problem without qualifying what the problem actually is! Can you see why I don't feel comfortable about it? Anyway, now that I've explained why I don't like what's happened, I'll stop. I've been arguing against this on principle, not because I think your code is bad (speaking about identd, not inetd). It's probably time to just sigh and forget about it. :-) Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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