Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Wed, 5 Apr 95 12:20:24 MDT
From:      terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert)
To:        wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman)
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: misc/292: rfc1323 and rfc1644 support can confuse terminal servers w/SLIP
Message-ID:  <9504051820.AA00666@cs.weber.edu>
In-Reply-To: <9504051420.AA25770@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> from "Garrett Wollman" at Apr 5, 95 10:20:41 am

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> > In other words, default it off?
> 
> No.  I wrote it the way I did intentionally, and the default should be
> ON (except when installing, when it's an issue for the installation
> program).  If the default were to be off, the correct approach would
> be to set the variables in the source to zero.  I believe very
> strongly that this would be a large step backwards.

I agree in principle, even though this violates the rule of least
astonishment because of the verified interoperability problems.

Just wanted to make sure of the intent.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@cs.weber.edu
---
Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?9504051820.AA00666>