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SubjectRe: unremovable files and possible fs corruption (2.1.123)
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In article <linux.kernel.199811010356.WAA07181@hilfy.ece.cmu.edu>,
Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH <allbery@kf8nh.apk.net> wrote:
>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,

open() is pretty portable, as are read(), write(), close(), and
exit(). The one concession away from portability I make is to
try to avoid platforms (like iRMX, which I ported my text editor[1]
to aeons ago and then vowed to avoid like grim death thereafter)
that don't provide those functions.

[1: Levee, which runs on USCD Pascal, CP/M, MP/M, iRMX, Dos, FlexOS,
the Atari ST, and more Unices that you can shake a stick at.]

____
david parsons \bi/ A nice thing about Linux is that if I don't like
\/ a particular C runtime library, I can discard it
and use another, or none at all.

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