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Re: Hurd Projects
From: |
Marcus Brinkmann |
Subject: |
Re: Hurd Projects |
Date: |
Sun, 23 Dec 2001 02:28:41 +0100 |
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On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 05:32:20PM -0700, mike burrell wrote:
> i've thought about this, too, but i wonder if it would not violate some Unix
> standard (Posix?) in some way?
If your translator is doing some useful job, and fitted for the environment
it was designed and written for, we are not going to have another look if it
is standard compliant ;).
Of course, the Hurd as a whole is POSIX compliant (modulo bugs) and should
stay so, but it does not limit itself to it. If the whole purpose of a
filesystem is to expire data, and expiring data is not compliant with the
standard (I am not saying it is or isn't, just assuming it as an example),
then that's not a problem.
Of course, you are well advised to take some precautions, and not break
conformance unnecessarily. For example, you could make an expiration
semantically identical to a "rm" operation. This way you would not
stress the programs using the data too much by failing in severly
extraordinary ways.
Thanks,
Marcus
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- Re: Hurd Projects, (continued)
- Re: Hurd Projects, mike burrell, 2001/12/22
- Re: Hurd Projects, Marcus Brinkmann, 2001/12/22
- Re: Hurd Projects, Moritz Schulte, 2001/12/22
- Re: Hurd Projects, Marcus Brinkmann, 2001/12/22
- Re: Hurd Projects, Ognyan Kulev, 2001/12/23
- Re: Hurd Projects, Thomas Bushnell, BSG, 2001/12/23
- Re: Hurd Projects, Lars Weber, 2001/12/22
- Re: Hurd Projects, Adam Olsen, 2001/12/22
- Re: Hurd Projects, Lars Weber, 2001/12/22
- Re: Hurd Projects, mike burrell, 2001/12/22
- Re: Hurd Projects,
Marcus Brinkmann <=
- Re: Hurd Projects, Lars Weber, 2001/12/22
- Re: Hurd Projects, Kevin Kreamer, 2001/12/29
- Re: Hurd Projects, Jeroen Dekkers, 2001/12/22
- Re: Hurd Projects, Ognyan Kulev, 2001/12/23
- Re: Hurd Projects, mike burrell, 2001/12/22
- Re: Hurd Projects, Marcus Brinkmann, 2001/12/22
- Re: Hurd Projects, mike burrell, 2001/12/22
- Re: Hurd Projects, Thomas Bushnell, BSG, 2001/12/23
- Re: Hurd Projects, Lars Weber, 2001/12/22
- Re: Hurd Projects, Jeroen Dekkers, 2001/12/22