From: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Df command in Plan9?
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 12:43:24 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0010221232000.590-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200010221559.LAA11025@smarty.smart.net>
On Sun, 22 Oct 100, Rick Hohensee wrote:
> > > True. When was the last time you did a du on / ? Or /usr ? Why?
> >
> > Exactly. So you are giving performance problems to normal processes just
> > to make the operation of _really_ dubious merit run faster. Once in many
> > months. Smart, that...
>
> Ah, there's the problem. I keep trying to think, in most un-unix-like fashion,
> that a user is somehow more important than a process.
Rick, remember the comment about demagogy? That's precisely what I was
refering to. s/process/operation requested by user/ and reread the
sentence you've quoted. IMO you've missed your calling - in marketing or
election campaigns your lack of intellectual honesty would be really
great, but for fsck sake, stay away from the technical stuff, you are only
making yourself look pathetic.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-10-22 16:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-10-20 20:31 Russ Cox
2000-10-20 21:44 ` Alexander Viro
2000-10-20 21:51 ` Boyd Roberts
2000-10-21 0:37 ` Rick Hohensee
2000-10-21 10:13 ` Alexander Viro
2000-10-22 0:13 ` Rick Hohensee
2000-10-22 0:25 ` Boyd Roberts
2000-10-22 15:41 ` Rick Hohensee
2000-10-23 9:02 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2000-10-23 10:30 ` Alexander Viro
2000-10-24 11:37 ` Boyd Roberts
2000-10-25 8:30 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2000-10-26 4:54 ` Alexander Viro
2000-10-26 5:44 ` Boyd Roberts
2000-10-22 11:34 ` Alexander Viro
2000-10-22 15:59 ` Rick Hohensee
2000-10-22 16:43 ` Alexander Viro [this message]
2000-10-23 5:06 ` Boyd Roberts
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-10-22 17:06 forsyth
2000-10-23 2:23 ` Rick Hohensee
2000-10-22 11:04 forsyth
2000-10-22 12:49 ` Boyd Roberts
2000-10-22 13:16 ` Alexander Viro
2000-10-22 16:07 ` Rick Hohensee
2000-10-22 16:31 ` Alexander Viro
2000-10-23 2:07 ` Rick Hohensee
2000-10-22 16:05 ` Rick Hohensee
2000-10-20 21:51 presotto
2000-10-20 20:22 Mark C. Otto
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