From: wietse@porcupine.org (Wietse Venema)
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Wietse Venema <wietse@porcupine.org>,
kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-net@vger.kernel.org,
netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ioctl SIOCGIFNETMASK: ip alias bug 2.4.9 and 2.2.19
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 15:59:58 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010906195958.222DFBC06C@spike.porcupine.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E15f55T-0000Kc-00@the-village.bc.nu> "from Alan Cox at Sep 6, 2001 08:45:19 pm"
Alan Cox:
> > Soldiers are marching down the street. The mother of one of those
> > soldiers is ever so proud. All the other guys are marching out of
> > step. Her son is the only one who does it right.
> >
> > That's what it looks like for a person who writes Internet software
> > that aims to work on a wide variety of platforms.
>
> I think you have the metaphor wrong. The older API is a bit like the
> cavalry charging into battle at the start of world war one. It may have been
> how everyone did it but they guys with the "newfangled, really not how it
> should be done, definitely not cricket" machine guns got the last laugh
Keep your superiority complex out of my mailbox, thank you.
Wietse
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-09-06 19:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20010906155920.B29583@maggie.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de>
[not found] ` <200109061554.TAA11031@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
2001-09-06 17:48 ` Matthias Andree
2001-09-06 18:06 ` kuznet
2001-09-06 18:18 ` Wietse Venema
2001-09-06 18:38 ` kuznet
2001-09-06 19:45 ` Alan Cox
2001-09-06 19:59 ` Wietse Venema [this message]
2001-09-06 20:20 ` jamal
2001-09-06 20:41 ` Wietse Venema
2001-09-06 20:44 ` jamal
2001-09-06 21:20 ` Matthias Andree
2001-09-07 6:11 ` Patrick Schaaf
2001-09-07 9:24 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2001-09-07 11:13 ` Matthias Andree
2001-09-08 13:25 ` Kai Henningsen
2001-09-06 20:22 ` Alan Cox
2001-09-06 20:38 ` Wietse Venema
2001-09-10 16:11 ` Dennis
2001-09-06 20:13 ` Matthias Andree
2001-09-10 8:05 ` David Weinehall
2001-09-10 12:26 ` Wietse Venema
2001-09-10 12:53 ` David Weinehall
2001-09-10 13:52 ` Wietse Venema
2001-09-10 15:18 ` Matthias Andree
2001-09-10 15:12 ` Matthias Andree
2001-09-10 19:36 ` kuznet
2001-09-10 20:14 ` Matthias Andree
2001-09-11 15:22 ` kuznet
2001-09-11 16:39 ` Matthias Andree
2001-09-10 20:40 ` Andi Kleen
2001-09-10 21:19 ` Matthias Andree
2001-09-11 11:26 ` Matthias Andree
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