At 15.50 27/10/01 -0400, Alexander Viro wrote:
>/me _seriously_ considers hostile takeover of the damn thing
>
>I mean, when holes are found at that rate just by cursory look through
>the code... And that stuff had been there for at least 2 years.
>Richard, I hate to break it on you, but dealing with that crap is
>generally considered a maintainer's job. And it is supposed to happen
>slightly faster - 2 years would be bad even for MS. If you don't
>have time for that work - say so and step down, nobody will blame
>you for that. Repeating that everything will be fine RSN is getting
>real old by now...
As matters stand I would suggest a radical approach:
What about to replace the current devfs by a clean and lightweight
ramfs based filesystem?
IMO we need a complete rewrite and I'm sure we can make it simpler
and cleaner. 2.5 stuff, but it's worthwhile.
Just my 0.02 Euro,
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