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Re: My proposal for `PATH_MAX' and friends (was: What is ``access (NULL,
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Marcus Brinkmann |
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Re: My proposal for `PATH_MAX' and friends (was: What is ``access (NULL, whatever)'' supposed to do?) |
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Wed, 11 Apr 2007 23:15:55 +0200 |
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At Wed, 11 Apr 2007 10:56:18 +0200,
Neal H. Walfield wrote:
>
> At Tue, 10 Apr 2007 22:10:01 -0700,
> Thomas Bushnell BSG <tb@becket.net> wrote:
> >
> > [1 <text/plain (quoted-printable)>]
> > On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 21:44 +0200, Thomas Schwinge wrote:
> > > Hello!
> > >
> > > We're still being again and again annoyed by programs that use `PATH_MAX'
> > > unconditionally.
> >
> > Why stop with this one? Let's just drop all the Hurd features and
> > implement the same interface as Linux, as exactly as we can make it.
>
> Legacy compatibility has always ruled the day. As I understood it,
> the idea was to write an OS, not a distribution.
That's not completely true. The goal of the GNU project is to write a
complete system. Of course, our task within that is only a small part.
Thanks,
Marcus
- Re: What is ``access (NULL, whatever)'' supposed to do?, (continued)
- Re: What is ``access (NULL, whatever)'' supposed to do?, Roland McGrath, 2007/04/09
- Re: What is ``access (NULL, whatever)'' supposed to do?, Neal H. Walfield, 2007/04/10
- Re: What is ``access (NULL, whatever)'' supposed to do?, Roland McGrath, 2007/04/10
- Re: What is ``access (NULL, whatever)'' supposed to do?, Thomas Schwinge, 2007/04/10
- My proposal for `PATH_MAX' and friends (was: What is ``access (NULL, whatever)'' supposed to do?), Thomas Schwinge, 2007/04/10
- Re: My proposal for `PATH_MAX' and friends (was: What is ``access (NULL, whatever)'' supposed to do?), Thomas Bushnell BSG, 2007/04/11
- Re: My proposal for `PATH_MAX' and friends (was: What is ``access (NULL, whatever)'' supposed to do?), Neal H. Walfield, 2007/04/11
- Re: My proposal for `PATH_MAX' and friends (was: What is ``access (NULL, whatever)'' supposed to do?), olafBuddenhagen, 2007/04/11
- Re: My proposal for `PATH_MAX' and friends (was: What is ``access (NULL, whatever)'' supposed to do?),
Marcus Brinkmann <=
- Setting ones's priorities (was: My proposal for `PATH_MAX' and friends), Thomas Schwinge, 2007/04/11
- Re: Setting ones's priorities (was: My proposal for `PATH_MAX' and friends), Thomas Bushnell BSG, 2007/04/11
- Re: My proposal for `PATH_MAX' and friends (was: What is ``access (NULL, whatever)'' supposed to do?), Roland McGrath, 2007/04/12
- Re: My proposal for `PATH_MAX' and friends, Thomas Schwinge, 2007/04/12
- Re: What is ``access (NULL, whatever)'' supposed to do?, Roland McGrath, 2007/04/12
- Whence Hurd (was: What is ``access (NULL, whatever)'' supposed to do?), Thomas Schwinge, 2007/04/12
- Re: What is ``access (NULL, whatever)'' supposed to do?, Thomas Bushnell BSG, 2007/04/11