-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Crispin Cowan wrote: > John Richard Moser wrote: > >> Crispin Cowan wrote: >> >"Top posting" is where you insert your reply to a post *above* the other >> >guy's post instead of below. Business people tend to prefer top posting, >> >while technical people tend to prefer that you insert your response >> >*below* the text you are responding to. >> >> I'm a business person, but I'm a technical person too. I tend to think >> in terms of PR and marketting, but also in terms of making sure that all >> claims are technically accuratet, when I discuss things. I like to be >> able to do things and understand the technical aspect of everything; and >> if I was ever given a managment position I'd prefer to be able to work >> with the programmers and engineers below me, but also to have them >> actually be smarter than me so I can learn from them too. >> >> What type of posting should I prefer? > > > I have no idea what you "should" prefer. In my experience, one's > preferences are not a choice, they simply are. > > The more appropriate question is what kind of postings you should write. > The answer depends on your community. When writing to a technical > community, you'll likely do better with bottom posting. When writing to > suits, you'll likely do better with top posting. > Got it. >> >Greg K-H (a senior Linux kernel developer) did a bunch of work and >> >reviewed your code. He did you a favor. You belittled his work. It may >> >not be wrong, but it is not very smart. >> >> Well I'm sorry, it just came across wrong and that wasn't my intent. >> I'll be more careful next time. > > > So what is it you expected to happen when you posted your code? > I think my original intent was to get some feedback on the way I approached the stacking issue. Serge has a module that actively stacks and such, which I don't understand (I should grok that one day through rigorous reading and reimplementing too), so I decided I wanted to know how LSM worked, and decided to clone it and put some GrSec stuff on top of it to test (and to learn how GrSec works), this is what I ended up with. > Crispin - -- All content of all messages exchanged herein are left in the Public Domain, unless otherwise explicitly stated. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFB+93LhDd4aOud5P8RAv35AKCClO5JWoJKgR8qBppr5kcxWszesgCfSWJZ xNv0Q/CXkwpfDt0XNmotTEo= =5P4X -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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