itojun@iijlab.net wrote:

>         My fundamental question is, why do people work on *BSDs needs to waste
>         their time on this kind of tiny (but very irritating) twists.
>         Other researchers/hackers find it troublesome.

I have asked myself the same thing.  I think some people just feel the urge
to put their mark on the code, so they do this by renaming a few functions
or variables.  As you say, a waste of time.


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        -- Lennart