On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 03:13:36PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > Michael Stone wrote: > > Not very backward-compatible, is it? In some environments it's desirable > > to have the software behave the same on every platform; even if it's > > buggy, the bugs need to be consistent. > > This is linux. We break backwards compatability if we have to do do things > *right*. How is it right to spit out an error message on every connection that adds nothing to most people's use of the product? Especially when there exists a verbose mode for people who want lots of gory details about the efficacy of their connection? SSH doesn't tell me the key length of connections *except* in this one case--which is not consistent, and which is not unambiguously "*right*" behavior. -- Mike Stone
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