Subject: Re: marching unit numbers
To: Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@netbsd.org>
From: Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net>
List: tech-kern
Date: 12/30/1999 17:23:27
On 30 Dec 1999, Chris G. Demetriou wrote:

> I think in a sane world that does dynamic configuration...

Ok, now that you've just moved to the realm of the purely
theoretical.... :-)

> ...if you're
> depending on unit numbers being hard-ish-coded and you've not (somehow)
> wired them down in your config file, you'll lose.

Probably. I thought of this more as something that would be a bit
more `right' in some situations rather than anything you'd depend
on for someting critical.

cjs
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