Re: CVS commit: src/sys/kern

[Maxime Villard <max%m00nbsd.net@localhost>]

Le 06/12/2018 à 07:35, Taylor R Campbell a écrit :
> So please try again, maxv.  Your last message was incredibly
> disrespectful to other members of the project who have spent decades
> with NetBSD doing debugging and diagnostics with tools your changes
> broke.

Oh yeah? Let's talk disrespect:

 - I developed the strongest KASLR implementation ever, and the only
   thing I'm told now is that enabling it is a "bug".

 - I discussed the issue of leaky sysctls a fews months ago, I
   identified these sysctls, I made a TODO list about that, I repeated
   several times that I would plug them, it was agreed to achieve that
   by limiting access to root only, and I even added it as a blocker
   for NetBSD-9. After all of that, someone comes in and reverts my
   changes with no discussion whatsoever. All the issues I marked as
   "done" suddenly have to be re-fixed differently again by me.

 - I am now personally accused by several people of breaking their
   systems: "you did that", "you've broken my ability", and so on. These
   changes were discussed, and in real life it's supposed to mean that
   there is a shared responsibility. Yet all of a sudden, the fingers
   are pointed at me, in the most ridiculous way possible.

The truth is, in the end it _is_ legitimate to change the fix, and
re-discuss it all in order to not break fstat and friends. But far from
doing that, you are literally all trying to prevent any fix; by reverting
changes without discussion as if none had been held beforehand, by
accusing me while it was agreed upon, by saying that I'm really dumb to
send the email to devs as if the conversation hadn't been held there
earlier with no audience problem whatsoever, by saying that I don't want
people's opinion in a thread where I was precisely _asking_ people's
opinion, by suggesting that I'm not happy with the conclusion of previous
discussions while it's so glaringly obvious that I actually _agreed_ with
the previous conclusion, and so on.

Overall, I don't see a lot of honesty, or even respect, in all of your
answers.

I will thank Christos for committing something that does improve the
situation from a technical PoV. At least, one thing was done. And it
also shows that there is no point discussing.