Re: [WARNING] devfs mount default changed

From: Michael Harnois (mdharnois@home.com)
Date: Sun Apr 30 2000 - 19:42:12 EST


On Sun, 30 Apr 2000 13:25:23 -0600, Richard Gooch <rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca> said:
> Your patch just made it more convenient to some people, at the
> cost of breaking existing behaviour (and making it inconvenient
> to others).

"Inconvenient?" How about "idiotic?" "inane?" "woefully misguided?"
Thanks to this change I can no longer reboot unattended after a power
failure, since I have to be sitting at the console to enter something
at the prompt (I use a boot floppy.) That's not inconvenient. That's
just a plain stupid change. Geez, if you don't want to use it, don't
compile it in. Don't mess up the systems of those of us who expect
reasonably normal behavior.

-- 
Michael D. Harnois, Redeemer Lutheran Church, Washburn, IA 
mdharnois@home.com                      aa0bt@aa0bt.ampr.org 
 When the stomach is satisfied, and lust is spent, 
 man spares a little time for God. -- Will Durant

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