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Re: design goals vs mechanisms (was: Re: Let's do some coding :-)
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Jonathan S. Shapiro |
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Re: design goals vs mechanisms (was: Re: Let's do some coding :-) |
Date: |
Fri, 28 Oct 2005 11:27:29 -0400 |
On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 15:08 +0200, Michal Suchanek wrote:
> On 10/26/05, Marcus Brinkmann <address@hidden> wrote:
> > At Wed, 26 Oct 2005 22:43:06 +0200,
> > Bas Wijnen <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > If you want stability, you probably want to do some of the following:
> > * allocate a fixed amount of resources statically up front,
> > instead dynamically at run time.
>
> I kind of dislike this. That is one of the things that is nice in
> Hurd/Mach: you have no limit on the size of strings like filenames. I
> do not think I would like a filename that has 1M characters, but I do
> not know what is the "reasonable limit" for filename length.
I don't know anybody who *does* like this, but go read your sentence
again. What you are saying is: "I want the system to run robustly, but I
am unable to specify the conditions under which it must do so."
This just won't work. It isn't even a kernel vs. application issue.
shap
- Re: design goals vs mechanisms, (continued)
- Re: design goals vs mechanisms, Brian Brunswick, 2005/10/27
- Re: design goals vs mechanisms (was: Re: Let's do some coding :-), Jonathan S. Shapiro, 2005/10/26
- Re: design goals vs mechanisms (was: Re: Let's do some coding :-), Jonathan S. Shapiro, 2005/10/26
- Re: design goals vs mechanisms (was: Re: Let's do some coding :-), Marcus Brinkmann, 2005/10/26
- Re: design goals vs mechanisms (was: Re: Let's do some coding :-), Jonathan S. Shapiro, 2005/10/26
- Re: design goals vs mechanisms (was: Re: Let's do some coding :-), Michal Suchanek, 2005/10/28
- Re: design goals vs mechanisms (was: Re: Let's do some coding :-), Marcus Brinkmann, 2005/10/28
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- Fwd: design goals vs mechanisms (was: Re: Let's do some coding :-), Michal Suchanek, 2005/10/31
- Re: design goals vs mechanisms (was: Re: Let's do some coding :-),
Jonathan S. Shapiro <=
- Re: design goals vs mechanisms (was: Re: Let's do some coding :-), Michal Suchanek, 2005/10/31
- Re: design goals vs mechanisms (was: Re: Let's do some coding :-), Jonathan S. Shapiro, 2005/10/31
- Re: design goals vs mechanisms (was: Re: Let's do some coding :-), Jonathan S. Shapiro, 2005/10/26
- Re: design goals vs mechanisms (was: Re: Let's do some coding :-), Marcus Brinkmann, 2005/10/26
- Re: design goals vs mechanisms (was: Re: Let's do some coding :-), Jonathan S. Shapiro, 2005/10/26
- Re: design goals vs mechanisms (was: Re: Let's do some coding :-), Alfred M\. Szmidt, 2005/10/26
- Re: design goals vs mechanisms (was: Re: Let's do some coding :-), Jonathan S. Shapiro, 2005/10/26
- Re: design goals vs mechanisms, ness, 2005/10/27
- Re: design goals vs mechanisms, Marcus Brinkmann, 2005/10/27
- Re: design goals vs mechanisms, ness, 2005/10/27