Re: design goals vs mechanisms (was: Re: Let's do some coding :-)

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

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