Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 28 Jul 2001 18:46:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 28 Jul 2001 18:45:56 -0400 Received: from pD9E1EFED.dip.t-dialin.net ([217.225.239.237]:59148 "EHLO emma1.emma.line.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 28 Jul 2001 18:45:36 -0400 Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 00:45:42 +0200 From: Matthias Andree To: Hans Reiser Cc: Andre Pang , Larry McVoy , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: ext3-2.4-0.9.4 Message-ID: <20010729004542.A9350@emma1.emma.line.org> Mail-Followup-To: Hans Reiser , Andre Pang , Larry McVoy , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20010726174844.W17244@emma1.emma.line.org> <9jpftj$356$1@penguin.transmeta.com> <20010726095452.L27780@work.bitmover.com> <996167751.209473.2263.nullmailer@bozar.algorithm.com.au> <3B605A3B.6E95AE36@namesys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3B605A3B.6E95AE36@namesys.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.19i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-kernel-outgoing On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Hans Reiser wrote: > No, Linus is right and the MTA guys are just wrong. The mailers are > the place to fix things, not the kernel. If the mailer guys want to > depend on the kernel being stupidly designed, tough. Someone should > fix their mailer code and then it would run faster on Linux than on > any other platform. Well, some systems are even documented that way, so there's nothing with "depend on the kernel being stupidly designed", but "depend on what mount(8) says". MTA authors don't play games, they also write that their software relies on this behaviour, as laid out. -- Matthias Andree - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/