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Re: Getting the User/Owner of another process

On 30 sep 2003, at 23.10, John Farmer wrote:

Maybe you hadn't read my previous post: I AM NOT using Panther, I have a
SINGLE user, and this is a WIRELESS networking solution, so users SHOULD
have thier own profiles, especially if they are out and about and need to
have seperate profiles for seperate occassions. Not only that is it is a
User REQUIREMENT that we have seperate profiles.

Sir, you need to evaluate how you treat others in the development community,
or soon you won't have a development community left.

I agree that it happens maybe a bit too often that the Cocoa dev community first takes the route of criticising the design decision of the developer before trying to help find an immediate solution to the question. However, in many cases that is a warranted first step. My message did acknowledge that in rare cases there could be a need for something like you were looking for, but in the majority of cases it is not. I may also have assumed that you would like your application to run on Panther once it is released within a few weeks to a few months now...

Furthermore, I would like to point out that I consciously chose to respond to Mr Farmsworth in private, because of his blatant flamebait. I found that his message was long out of line. Discussing it in detail here on the list is not desirable, especially not now, after the list-mom stepped in.

Last commend: When asking for advice on a public mailing list, staffed with developers who are not paid to participate, you have to stand that people will first make sure that you made your homework and have your design well thought-out. That you aren't just using the list as a replacement for reading the documentation. This scrutiny may even help you look over your design decisions from a different perspective. If you don't want to "waste time" describing exactly why you have that exact requirement, then there is no reason why we would want to "waste time" trying to help you.

I would have loved to keep this conversation too out of the list, but Farnsworth's decision to repost my message to the list, prompts a reply.

/ Rgds, David
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