From: "Michael H. Warfield" <mhw@wittsend.com>
To: Ben Ford <bford@talontech.com>
Cc: Olaf Kirch <okir@caldera.de>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: More modutils: It's probably worse.
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 15:24:30 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001114152430.C2645@alcove.wittsend.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0011132040160.1699-100000@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0011132352550.31869-100000@dione.ids.pl> <20001114095921.E30730@monad.caldera.de> <3A119082.BBFD700@talontech.com>
In-Reply-To: <3A119082.BBFD700@talontech.com>; from bford@talontech.com on Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 11:20:35AM -0800
Oh, I hate to add to a remark like that (OK, I lied, I love
trollbait...)
On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 11:20:35AM -0800, Ben Ford wrote:
> Olaf Kirch wrote:
> > sure request_module _does_not_ accept funky module names. Why allow
> > people to shoot themselves (and, by extension, all other Linux users
> > out there) in the foot?
> I thought that was the whole purpose of Unix/Linux?
True! Very true! Unix/Linux requires that the user shoot
themselves in the foot. Windows automates that process and does it
for the user, thus making foot shooting user friendly. :-)
> -b
Mike
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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.21.0011132040160.1699-100000@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk>
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.21.0011132352550.31869-100000@dione.ids.pl>
2000-11-14 8:59 ` Olaf Kirch
2000-11-14 10:04 ` David Schleef
2000-11-14 10:29 ` Guest section DW
2000-11-14 10:38 ` Olaf Kirch
2000-11-14 19:20 ` Ben Ford
2000-11-14 20:24 ` Michael H. Warfield [this message]
2000-11-14 19:42 ` H. Peter Anvin
2000-11-14 23:27 ` Keith Owens
2000-11-15 10:43 ` Olaf Titz
2000-11-15 11:17 ` Tim Waugh
2000-11-16 4:31 ` Keith Owens
2000-11-17 0:48 ` Rusty Russell
2000-11-14 12:47 Petr Vandrovec
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