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From: pfeiffer@nmsu.edu (Joe Pfeiffer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux UFS support and FreeBSD
Followup-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Date: 25 Dec 1996 02:07:01 GMT
Organization: NMSU Computer Science
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In-reply-to: mandtbac@news.abo.fi's message of 23 Dec 1996 16:46:45 GMT
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In article <59md1l$ni3@josie.abo.fi> mandtbac@news.abo.fi (Mats Andtbacka) writes:

   again, as others have said - you don't like it, you feel free to hack
   it out of the sources before compiling a brand-new, politically
   correct (spit spit) kernel for yourself. like i hack "lp0 on fire"
   right back _in_ every so often.

Courtesy is not ``political correctness.''  Asking for one has nothing
to do with asking for the other.

   and FWIW, i think "fucking Sun blows me" actually says something
   worthwhile about endianity mismatch errors. check the code to find
   out.

No, it doesn't.  It may be a message that is caused by an endianity
mismatch error, but it doesn't say anything about it at all.  And
notice that having content is neither ``political correctness'' nor
courtesy -- and this message has no significant content at all.
--
Joseph J. Pfeiffer, Jr., Ph.D.       Phone -- (505) 646-1605
Department of Computer Science       FAX   -- (505) 646-1002
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     this semester