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Re: line-move-visual
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Mark Crispin |
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Re: line-move-visual |
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Wed, 08 Dec 2010 15:12:10 -0000 |
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On Sun, 6 Jun 2010, Thad Floryan posted:
This is OT so I'll keep it short. Similar braindamage recently with
Fedora where a developer stated "I don't particularly care how UNIX
has always worked."
Wow.
I've dealt with broken "improvements" in RedHat/Fedora before; they don't
seem to have a very good review process for functionality changes. The
two that I remember the most are making flock() return ENOLCK for an NFS
file (instead of no-op) and getaddrinfo() doing a reverse DNS lookup for
the ai_canonname return value. In both cases, the developer insisted that
the change was a "fix", never mind all the applications that were broken
by it. Eventually, both of these changes were reverted after a huge hue
and cry.
This one takes the cake.
I don't know which amazes me more, the fact that such an ill-conceived
change was made in the first place, or the developer's reaction when
called to account.
-- Mark --
http://panda.com/mrc
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what to eat for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
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