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From: wgb@balkan.TNT.COM (William G. Bunton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: ISC 2.2 Hangs on disk I/O
Message-ID: <1991Mar18.133023.22210@balkan.TNT.COM>
Date: 18 Mar 91 13:30:23 GMT
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In article <3446@sixhub.UUCP> davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
writes (about ISC and WD disk controllers):
>Since it's documented to be possible I can't call it
>a bug.

Right.  And since it's documented that the u area is writeable,
allowing you to change your uid, that's not a bug either?  (Not to
pick on ISC, it just seemed a rather widely-known counter example to
the above attitude).

>"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me

I'm sorry, but this surely seems to fit your above statement.
-- 
William G. Bunton              | Since it's documented to be possible, I
wgb@balkan.tnt.com             | can't call it a bug.
Tools & Techniques, Austin, TX |                        -- Bill Davidson