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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!nntp.uio.no!newsfeeds.sol.net!newspump.sol.net!howland.erols.net!panix!news.panix.com!usenet From: perry@jekyll.piermont.com (Perry E. Metzger) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Why no addusr? Date: 18 Feb 1997 16:04:25 -0500 Organization: Partnership for an America Free Drug Lines: 17 Message-ID: <87k9o5u8py.fsf@jekyll.piermont.com> References: <none-ya023480001912962244220001@news.infi.net> <1997Feb14.090136@screwem.citi.umich.edu> <5e312c$fc8@news.bayarea.net> <1997Feb15.102158@screwem.citi.umich.edu> <5e4t6b$o5p@cynic.portal.ca> <1997Feb18.133406@luckey.citi.umich.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: jekyll.piermont.com X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.32 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:5480 rees@umich.edu (Jim Rees) writes: > I do understand that Jim Rees submitted a patch to wd.c to Charles > Hannum, rather than submitting it as a PR. > > Actually, I sent it to Herb Peyerl and he sent it to Charles. I never heard > back what, if anything, was done with it. I would be very surprised to > learn that it was ever blindly integrated into any version of NetBSD without > being examined by a disk expert. It turned out that your patch, although it worked on certain machines, caused some serious problems for other people (i.e. caused serious disk lossage). We finally have a patch integrated that does the same thing but "does it right"; I believe Chris Demetriou wrote the thing...