Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 23 Dec 2003 23:05:55 +0000 | From | viro@parcelfa ... | Subject | Re: DEVFS is very good compared to UDEV |
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On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 02:21:03PM -0800, Hua Zhong wrote:
> But I do have sth fair to say about this "unmaintained" part. > > >From my memory, at some point in time, somebody (Al Viro?) reviewed > devfs code and flamed the author in public (klml), throwing lots of bad > impolite words to him, which I think was the biggest reason that the > author stopped maintaining it.
Oh, really? That "flame in public" was after _many_ months of pointing to the same problems in private - with zero effect.
If maintainer sits on exploitable holes for ~18 months and does not care to do anything, his code is unmaintained. If same maintainer keeps pretending in public that everything is fine, he can expect to have the truthfulness of his statements challenged. Also in public. If the situation persists even after that, then yes, there will be rather unflattering things to say.
Don't delude yourself - critical parts of devfs had not been maintained for quite a while before Richard had disappeared. It's not the effect of flames - it's their cause and it predates them by _far_. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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