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SubjectRe: unremovable files and possible fs corruption (2.1.123)
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In message <71gldd$jml@pell.pell.portland.or.us>, david parsons writes:
+-----
| In article <linux.kernel.199810310122.UAA00331@hilfy.ece.cmu.edu>,
| Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH <allbery@kf8nh.apk.net> wrote:
| >In message <71dep8$ari@pell.pell.portland.or.us>, david parsons writes:
| >| david parsons \bi/ Pushing the published kernel interfaces into a shar
| ed
| >| \/ library is creeping dangerously close to the NT wad
| -o-
| >| dll's approach.
| >
| >And what else is libc.so (aside from being one humongous DLL instead of a
| >bunch of smaller ones)?
|
| But that's not the kernel interface, that's simply a collection of
| nice wrappers around the kernel interface.
|
| Today I can write code that avoids libc altogether and continues to
| work, but if libc becomes the published interface, that guarantee is
| gone.
+--->8

*shudder*

I have *never* worked with single platforms. (I got started by being
confronted with Xenix and TOPS-20 simultaneously.) As such, portability
means a LOT to me, and coding to a particular non-portable interface is
Evil. (Which may explain in part why I don't like Microsoft much....)

There are in fact times when it's unavoidable --- an example being the
little program that controls iBCS debugging. But they should be rare, and
avoided whenever possible.

--
brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net
system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu
carnegie mellon / electrical and computer engineering KF8NH
Kiss my bits, Billy-boy.



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