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From: dennison@telepath.com
Subject: Re: System Calls
Date: 1998/12/30
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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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