Re: posible bug in daemontools

Hi,

--On Friday, March 19, 2010 17:28:11 +0200 Peter Pentchev
<[email protected]> wrote:

> Errrr... I'd just like to point out, quite off-topic (message subject
> changed to reflect this), that this paragraph has a logic discrepancy
> that at best may be considered an inadvertent error in stating your
> position due to a momentary lapse of reason (neurons *do* misfire,
> I know that from personal experience! :), while at worst it might be
> viewed as a deliberate attepmt to misguide, misinform, and mislead
> the non-careful reader who skims over your message.  I do hope you
> didn't mean that in the latter sense.
> 
> What I'm referring to is that you said:
> - Matthias Andree is now involved in the FreeBSD team (true)
> - you consider dropping FreeBSD because of "this reason"; this supposedly
>   means that you consider dropping FreeBSD because Matthias Andree now
>   has commit access (much too weird if true)
> - "for example" you point out two problems you've had with FreeBSD.
> 
> Stated this way, it looks like you're saying that these problems are
> Matthias Andree's fault.  To put it simply, they aren't :)  Thus, they
> have absolutely no bearing on whether he has joined the team or not,
> and you might want to make it a bit clearer whether you're considering
> dropping FreeBSD because of the real problems or because of Matthias
> joining the project :)

I'm with FreeBSD over the last 10 years; as server and as deskop system.
My SPAMCONTROL enhancement for qmail is available as BSD port, maintained
by Renato Botelo.

You can see from my mail header: I'm still using it (with mulberry).

Coming back to the origin of the thread: 

* I consider a lot of software currently used for Unix as garbage. 
Just one sample: To include OpenSSL into qmail/SPAMCONTROL for qmail-remote
is a mess. Description of APIs ? RFCs with TLS state diagrams ? You wish.

* Considering the age of Qmail (and djbdns) is has a great design and
coding. 

* My problem with Andree: Sitting in a glass-house and throwing the stone.

* Certainly, he is not responsible for most of the FreeBSD bugs (there are
plenty, in particular in 8.x) and by the same token requiring Softupdates
for qmail's I/O. This is simply to ridiculous. 

* Apart from that I stay with FreeBSD, though it hurts in a daily life.


> As I said, quite off-topic; I'd be happy if this does NOT evolve
> into a subthread of 200 messages :)

Me too.

Thanks gentlemen.

regads.
--eh.

Dr. Erwin Hoffmann | FEHCom | http://www.fehcom.de/