From: dennison@telepath.com
Subject: Re: System Calls
Date: 1998/12/30
Date: 1998-12-30T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <76dcgn$nea$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1998Dec29.144631.1@eisner
In article <1998Dec29.144631.1@eisner>,
Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam wrote:
> No, the VMS semantics for file versions do not particularly match
> any other file system, and they are crucial to the VMS experience.
I think RMS's original idea for the GNU Hurd filesystem was going to include
file versions. I don't know whatever became of that.
> For that matter, the semantics for secondary appearances ofa
> single file seem to vary from OS to OS (alias, soft links,
> and hard links are some of the names I have heard).
Yeah. Some Unix applications require copies of things everywhere on the theory
that this feature makes it painless. Then they get ported to NT. Ouch!
> Let us not have the hallmark of an Ada program be that it is
> "least common denominator" when it comes to OS features. Ada
> may be a lovely language, but it cannot take all the work out
> of programming.
Amen to that!
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Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-12-16 0:00 System Calls mabrouk BELHOUT
1998-12-16 0:00 ` dennison
1998-12-17 0:00 ` Gilles Sarnikowski
1998-12-17 0:00 ` dennison
1998-12-18 0:00 ` mabrouk BELHOUT
1998-12-24 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1998-12-24 0:00 ` dennison
1998-12-24 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-12-25 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-12-29 0:00 ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
1998-12-29 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1998-12-29 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-12-30 0:00 ` dennison [this message]
1998-12-29 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1998-12-30 0:00 ` dennison
1999-01-02 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1998-12-25 0:00 ` dewar
1998-12-25 0:00 ` dewar
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1998-12-23 0:00 mabrouk BELHOUT
2001-07-10 18:20 Matt Raikes
2001-07-10 21:55 ` Dale Stanbrough
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