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Re: rsaix 7.7E: cleanup bug - maybe ...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (cfields@MIT.EDU)
Wed Aug 10 19:55:10 1994
From: cfields@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 1994 19:54:26 +0500
To: jawetzel@MIT.EDU
Cc: testers@MIT.EDU
> First I would like to say that x11 was only an example.
That's ok. I still think it may be a bug.
> No machine can be perfectly clean, but in this instance I think that Athena
> could do a better job of cleaning up.
Yes, of course. But once again, we're discussing tradeoffs here. I'm
not convinced that it _should_ do a better job. My current opinion is
that in the general case, the cleanup you're asking for costs more
than it's worth. And I'm considering the possibilities of other
solutions to the problem you're having, which is due to having multiple
filesystems with a common mountpoint.
> I realize that cleaning up will take some amount of time and that
> would delay logging on for the next user. Of course restarting the X
> server isn't exactly measured in nanoseconds.
This is a really bad example if you're trying to make a point. Not
restarting the X server isn't even an option, really. The costs of not
restarting the X server are far higher than those of restarting it.
> I think that every subsequent release should be an improvement of the
> last.
In every single piece of software? There's a lot of software in an
Athena release.
> I think cleaning up the mountpoints would be an improvement.
Whether it would be an improvement is the matter under debate. As I
said, I currently think that it would not be an improvement, due to
the scope of the problem versus the impact of the solution.
> I think now is the time to implement since you perform some cleanup on
> logout anyway.
I'm not sure what you mean by "now." And we've only been doing the
logout cleanup on public workstations for two days now. In this
respect, 7.7 _is_ an improvement over 7.6 already.
Craig
