On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 06:50:14PM -0400, Joshua Brindle wrote:
> Greg KH wrote:
>
> >Please fix that patch up to:
> > - not have any ifdef in the .c files
> > - use the proper coding style
> > - use the same convention as the other build flags have.
dear greg,
given that you do not appear to work for redhat, you will not be
aware of some things, and therefore i should make some explanation.
1) i am in a hurry. i am doing a demo for some customers and
it's gotta work and it's gotta look good.
2) i don't get paid to do this, i'm doing it on the strength of
the possibility that the demo will be good enough.
3) i used to work on samba, providing NT domains compatibility,
samba as you are no doubt aware is a program that allowed all
those corporate linux companies who applied for IPOs in 1998-2000
to "tick the boxes" when approaching potential customers
(windows-only shops) where the most important box to tick
was "file print and logon services".
NOT ONE of those companies included me in their IPOs: i had someone
come up to me in 1998 saying "i wrote a mouse howto for the
linux kernel, and got enough money from redhat's IPO to pay off
my mortgage - you worked on samba _you_ must have got a lot"
and the guy was terribly embarrassed when i told him that i didn't
get a penny.
that trend continued right through caldera's IPO, valinux's IPO
etc. even though i was working in the U.S.
basically, what i am getting round to saying is that i'm sending
what i have done here to the selinux mailing lists, and should it
prove useful, feel free to use it.
in several months time, i _might_ not have gone bankrupt, such that
i _might_ be in a position to tidy things up.
in the mean-time i'm sending what i have done:
1) as a favour to redhat (and i am trying to forget 3 above) and
2) because if other people do similar or same as i have, it makes
my life easier for maintenance later on.
l.
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