[6099] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Reworking liblocker
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sam Hartman)
Wed Dec 3 15:50:44 2008
From: Sam Hartman <hartmans@MIT.EDU>
To: Bill Cattey <wdc@mit.edu>
Cc: Greg Price <price@mit.edu>, Evan Broder <broder@mit.edu>,
release-team@mit.edu, athena10@mit.edu
Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:48:56 -0500
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>>>>> "Bill" == Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU> writes:
Bill> Am I understanding correctly here? You want to maintain the
Bill> debathena semantic compatibility that the detach command
Bill> does nothing?
Bill> This can't be right. That would mean that a disabling of
Bill> the detach command implemented as a particular artifact of
Bill> the evolving debathena interface would then drive an
Bill> INcompatibility with the long-standing semantics of detach
Bill> going back to Athena on Vax.
No, Bill, the claim is that removing detach was a design decision, not
an artifact and the long-standing Athena behavior is wrong. In
particular, it breaks unix's separation of one user from another.
--Sam
