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From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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To: Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@stud.uni-dortmund.de>
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Subject: Re: ext3-2.4-0.9.4
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On Sun, 29 Jul 2001, Matthias Andree wrote:
> 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".

The key word here is "some systems".

> MTA authors don't play games, they also write that their software
> relies on this behaviour, as laid out.

"MTA authors don't play games" ?!?!

I wonder how that explains things like QMQP or the
next-to-useless bounce messages generated by Notes ;)

Rik
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