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Date:      Sun, 31 Mar 1996 21:02:40 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users)
Cc:        handy@sxt2.space.lockheed.com
Subject:   Re: Fixit Floppy Broken?
Message-ID:  <199603311902.VAA00526@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199603311738.JAA13197@precipice.shockwave.com> from "Paul Traina" at Mar 31, 96 09:38:10 am

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As Paul Traina wrote:

>   Our floppy driver is not smart enough about write-protected media at
>   open(2) time.
> 
> That is a bug.  Please file a PR

Filing a PR won't help very much.  The floppy driver is in bad need
for a rewrite.

If you're willing to rewrite it, and submitting PRs would accelerate
this process, i could immediately submit half a dozen PRs for it. :-)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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