Supposed lack of code from Apple

Roman Neuhauser neuhauser at bellavista.cz
Wed May 14 10:25:36 PDT 2003


# jhb at FreeBSD.org / 2003-05-14 11:14:38 -0400:
> 
> On 14-May-2003 Wes Peters wrote:
> > On Tuesday 13 May 2003 01:57, Jordan Hubbard wrote:
> >>
> >> jkh at freebsd-> grep DOOFUS /usr/include/sys/errno.h
> >> #define EDOOFUS         88              /* Programming error */
> > 
> > I think your tie is knotted a bit too snugly, it's cutting off the flow 
> > of blood into your brain.  
> > 
> > If Apple wants to import FreeBSD code (it has been a very one-way 
> > street, hasn't it?)
> 
> Just a comment here.  I think this last statement is bull.  Apple
> has made lots of bugfixes to our code available in Darwin.  All it
> takes is for someone to extract their lazy rear from a chair and
> import those fixes.  We don't import our fixes into Darwin, Darwin
> developers do that.  In the same way, it is rather absurd to
> require Darwin developers to backport their fixes to FreeBSD.  That
> is the job of FreeBSD developers.  As an example of how this can
> work, see the recent fixes to smbfs that bp@ imported from Darwin.

    As far as I know Covalent's and IBM's developers *do* work on
    mainstream Apache in they day work.

    But don't read this as a support to Wes' position. I'm undecided.

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