Obsolete settings, still around
David Collier-Brown
davecb at Canada.Sun.COM
Tue Mar 10 16:03:22 GMT 1998
Andrew Tridgell wrote:
> The max packet and packet size are there for backward compatibility
> with old configs. We can probably remove them now.
Being excessively nice to harried sysadmins,
I'd claim they need to be phased out, and
propose that be turned into ``sorry, I don't need
to exist, goodbye'' messages.
--dave
[Honeywell used to be very good at becoming obsolete: they had
an algorithm for it:
given p::= old, q::= new, then
1. p (no q yet)
2. p == q (q is usable by itself, too)
3. p == p' (p' is (message && q))
4. p == p'' (p'' is just (message))
5. !p (no more p)
I claim max packet/packet size could usefully go to 4...
Honeywell the computer company is now at 4, heading for 5 (;-)0]
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