From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <3e1e9e6fbfa856a01013a2f51b8d244f@coraid.com> <34270f8ddb3fc06e71d4db496a891dd4@brasstown.quanstro.net> Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 20:43:41 +0100 Message-ID: From: Rudolf Sykora To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Subject: Re: [9fans] mk time-check/slice issue Topicbox-Message-UUID: a27bd83c-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Hello, On 19 December 2013 20:22, Blake McBride wrote: > Agreed. I enjoy reasoned debate. I don't enjoy being told the reason is > because "that's the way we do it". That is not reasoned debate. It is club > support. I believe, from reading this mailing list for some time, you must be ready to find many stupid reasonings. But opposite is, fortunately, also true: there are people here who can help. Second, you bumped into something which is not 100% to your liking, but on the other hand is "simple" and works. The simplicity is, in my opinion, what has always counted for people seriously-involved in plan9 and is one of the main advantages of the plan9 programs. Third, it would be, from my experience, an error to expect that there are no errors/flaws in the plan9 programs. When I started to play with plan9, I thought: it is simple, there are no errors. But in reality, whatever I tried, it did not quite work. So, my advice is to be ready to find such problems nearly all the time. And since many people who created the programs are gone by now, there is often little effort to correct these, even if there are true bugs. That's what I think. Ruda