Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 12:32:13 +0200 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com> Cc: Bill Fumerola <billf@chc-chimes.com>, Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@FreeBSD.org>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/miscfs/linprocfs linprocfs_misc.c Message-ID: <20000326123213.A5522@daemon.ninth-circle.org> In-Reply-To: <20000326010748.E18325@holly.calldei.com>; from chris@calldei.com on Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 01:07:48AM -0600 References: <200003251941.LAA67435@freefall.freebsd.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003260052580.15890-100000@green.dyndns.org> <20000326003014.D18325@holly.calldei.com> <20000326015708.S25438@jade.chc-chimes.com> <20000326010748.E18325@holly.calldei.com>
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-On [20000326 12:03], Chris Costello (chris@calldei.com) wrote: >On Sunday, March 26, 2000, Bill Fumerola wrote: >> >> I think the point of having this "bad interface" in our tree is to >> open up the doors to software written by linuxcentric and/or >> unintelligent programmers who write nonportable code. > > I don't particularly like non-portable code. Exactly. In this way it seems we're almost encouraging other developers to DEPEND on the linprocfs stuff. >> Sometimes we can get around this by porting their code, sometimes we >> can't (read: binary only software). > > See my comment about it being part of the Linux compatibility >code. Agreed. It makes waaay more sense to put it in there. -- Jeroen Ruigrok vd Werven/Asmodai asmodai@[wxs.nl|bart.nl|freebsd.org] Documentation nutter/C-rated Coder BSD: Technical excellence at its best The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>; The descent to hell is easy... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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