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Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2002 09:33:52 -0500 (EST)
From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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On 3 Nov 2002, Alan Cox wrote:

> I would hope IBM have more intelligence than to attempt to destroy the
> product by trying to force all sorts of junk into it. The Linux world
> has a process for filterng crap, it isnt IBM applying force. That path
> leads to Star Office 5.2, Netscape 4 and other similar scales of horror
> code that become unmaintainably bad.

If you define "unmaintainably bad" as "having features you don't need"
then I agree. But since dump to disk is in almost every other commercial
UNIX, maybe someone would question why it's good for others but not for
Linux.

I can agree on stuff the non-hacker wouldn't use, but that is exactly who
uses the crash dump in AIX, the person who wants to send a compressed dump
and money to IBM and get back a fix. Netdump assumes external resources
and a functional secure network (is the dump encrypted and I missed it?)
which home users surely don't have, and remote servers oftem lack as well.

-- 
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.

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