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From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
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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".
> 
> MTA authors don't play games, they also write that their software relies
> on this behaviour, as laid out.
> 
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> Matthias Andree
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Documenting their code won't make it fast or well designed.

Hans
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