Old stuff- I really don't read this mail often enough

POLA for whom? For people used to AIX, SOlaris, SunOS, and others, it
was a POLA violation. For those who had i386NetBSD work a certain way,
it wasn't.


On Sun, 7 Sep 2003, Aaron J. Grier wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 12:52:31PM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote:
> > You have to set an option to get early warning detection-
> > ST_ENABLE_EARLYWARN in your kernel config file, or use 'mt' to set it.
> > Otherwise you go to hard physical EOT.
> >
> > This was a requirement forced on me.
>
> by whom?  it seems a rediculous default since it violates the principal
> of least surprise.
>
> --
>   Aaron J. Grier | "Not your ordinary poofy goof." | agrier@poofygoof.com
>   "Isn't an OS that openly and proudly admits to come directly from Holy
>    UNIX better than a cheap UNIX copycat that needs to be sued in court
>    to determine what the hell it really is?"  --  Michael Sokolov
>