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On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 12:53:29AM +0200, Edgar Toernig wrote: > By your reasoning /usr/dict/words had to be in the kernel, > too. Well by my reasoning you should, if possible, define some usefull standards that will allow te reuse of these dictionaries within other applications. And while we're on the subject of whats IN or OUT, (and I'll bet if you ask 10 kernel developers you'll get 10 answers but I try anyway ;) In my philosophy the OS (kernel + device drivers) is an abstraction of the machine, it should present the 'machine' in such a way that allows for other abstractions such as a word processor to operate without having to know the specifics of hardware devices. To have a guideline on the 7 segments notation and to have a few defines that allow ASCII chars to be represented on 7 segments displays also help to support the 'machine' abstraction. Wheter or not /usr/dict/words should be 'in the kernel' is not being discussed here, so I am not going to elaborate on that. Cheers, henk PS I am not on the list, so please use CC if you're interested in a response. PS Please excuse any spelling mistakes, I don't have a spelling checker installed... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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