From owner-cvs-all Wed Jul 14 13:42: 2 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from axl.noc.iafrica.com (axl.noc.iafrica.com [196.31.1.175]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E85A1546D; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 13:41:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sheldonh@axl.noc.iafrica.com) Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.noc.iafrica.com) by axl.noc.iafrica.com with local-esmtp (Exim 3.02 #1) id 114Vop-000IJw-00; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 22:39:55 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn To: "Brian F. Feldman" Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/security/pidentd/patches patch-ak patch-al In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 14 Jul 1999 16:29:30 -0400." Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 22:39:55 +0200 Message-ID: <70427.931984795@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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