From owner-cvs-all Sun Mar 26 2:32:56 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from smtp03.wxs.nl (smtp03.wxs.nl [195.121.6.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D42DD37B8E2; Sun, 26 Mar 2000 02:32:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from daemon.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.224.48]) by smtp03.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.61) with ESMTP id AAA47BE; Sun, 26 Mar 2000 12:32:48 +0200 Received: (from asmodai@localhost) by daemon.ninth-circle.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA05546; Sun, 26 Mar 2000 12:32:14 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from asmodai) Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 12:32:13 +0200 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: Chris Costello Cc: Bill Fumerola , Brian Fundakowski Feldman , Dag-Erling Smorgrav , 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> References: <200003251941.LAA67435@freefall.freebsd.org> <20000326003014.D18325@holly.calldei.com> <20000326015708.S25438@jade.chc-chimes.com> <20000326010748.E18325@holly.calldei.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000326010748.E18325@holly.calldei.com>; from chris@calldei.com on Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 01:07:48AM -0600 Organisation: Ninth-Circle Enterprises Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -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 The descent to hell is easy... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message