Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest)

[Florin Malita <fmalita@gmail.com>]

Joerg Schilling wrote:

>Florin Malita <fmalita@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>On 2/10/06, *Joerg Schilling* <schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote:
>>
>>    Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> wrote:
>>    > The struct stat->st_rdev field need to be stable too to comply to
>>    POSIX?
>>
>>    Correct.
>>
>>    Jörg
>>
>>
>>You may claim you *never meant to* or you *never realized* you were
>>talking about, but you can't say you never talked about it - that's an
>>outright lie.
>>    
>>
>I did not write st_rdev and from my previous mail it was obvioys that 
>I was referring to st_dev.
>  
>
I never said you *wrote* st_rdev, did I?

You confirmed a statement about st_rdev - that's called "talking about
it". The fact that you didn't intend to or how obvious that is is
irrelevant in this context: you *did talk* about st_rdev and there's no
way you can deny or erase that.

But here comes the classic twist: instead of acknowledging your mistake,
you place the blame on everybody else for not guessing you were talking
about something else. This is not a rational behavior, please stop.

--
fm



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