From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 13:36:37 -0400 From: Russ Cox To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] skulker In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: Topicbox-Message-UUID: a3ad13a2-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 rob and i talked about this when i added DMTMP, and we decided that: a) it wasn't worth putting another column in for something that doesn't affect normal usage. b) overloading an existing column is not possible because of the chance of conflict. you say it's rare but what happens when it occurs? by the same logic we could get rid of the second and third x bit listing. i don't even think it's rare: if you make your mail directory +t (which is something people might reasonably do), then the lock files would be +lt. as far as the chmod +t /usr/$user/tmp is concerned, sure, let's try it out. your patch had lots of calgaryisms in it. please try to submit patches that only list the relevant changes. when you don't, it gets in the way of the automation. my apologies to everyone for falling behind on patch applications. i set up a reminder email via cron but it has not been firing. i've processed all the patches that were submitted as of a few minutes ago. russ