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Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 23:00:40 -0200 (BRST)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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To: Ryan Cumming <bodnar42@phalynx.dhs.org>
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Subject: Re: more devfs fun (Piled Higher and Deeper)
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On Sat, 27 Oct 2001, Ryan Cumming wrote:

> It might be more productive to provide patches or at least generate
> constructive ideas as how to fix these problems, as you are obviously
> quite capable of doing so.

1) yes, Al Viro is very capable of sending in devfs fixes
   and he has done so in the past  (IIRC around 2 months ago)

2) Richard Gooch then told Al he'd just started working on
   a patch to fix the problem and he'd rather fix things
   himself ... as far as I can see this hasn't happened yet

regards,

Rik
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