dce/rpc "client" api

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Andrew Tridgell wrote:

> > and it cannot be me that does this, because from past experience, my word
> > is not good enough.
> 
> oh, don't be so childish.

i am sorry to hear that you think so, and i probably am being [childish],
but the number of past experiences in which i have coded things up for
demonstration purposes, only to have the conclusions ignored, does leave
me with an extremely cynical attitude towards pursuing any further
developments.
 
> I won't take _anybodys_ word for it unless they spend the several days
> or a week to go through _all_ the code and check for all possible
> dependencies on our current architecture. Your approach of "I think
> these are the only possible ones, take my word for it" is so obviously
> wrong it is just silly. 

if you read my message carefully, it is guarded in such a way that it
implies "experience from problems with..." [that covered a number of days
to identify and find quick-fix for] and "preliminary analysis" that took
me fifteen minutes, earlier this afternoon.

if i implied that these are the only possible ones, take my word for it, i
apologise: i was, i _hope_, inviting other people to take a look and
perhaps confirm what i had cursorily observed and perhaps come up with a
more thorough and complete answer.

these kinds of invitations are what i have been doing on the samba mailing
lists for the last two to three years, andrew, and sometimes people even
take me up on them.


lukes.