Robert Dinse (nanook@eskimo.com) wrote:
: And as I previously mentioned, a lot of other functionality in the patch
: has value; even if it breaks POSIX rules (and I'm sorry if I'm speaking
: blasphemly in front of those who bow down and worship the POSIX god's).
: It's a configuration option. But I also understand Linus reluctance to have
No - if it's wrong, then it becomes a seperately maintained patch outside
of the mainstraim, and not a config option. After all, mainstream distribs
won't have it enabled.
: As I stated early on though, this is a more minor issue; the patch is
: well maintained and documented, easily to apply, so it's no big deal with each
Well, then you can keep maintaining it and people that want broken behaviour
can download and patch it.
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