Re: Out of ptys??
Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
Mon, 17 Aug 1998 12:23:05 +1000
Peter T. Breuer writes:
> "A month of sundays ago david parsons wrote:"
> >
> > >Get with the program!
> >
> > I'm a commercial applications developer. For me, `the program'
> > is `please don't delete the published interfaces unless you
> > have to.' Converting time_t to 64 bit is a `have to'; pulling
> > a less than decade-old[1] interface is not.
> >
> > [1: a human generation is a good minimum life for a published
> > interface.]
>
> Amen. Please take note: change nothing unless you are forced to.
> That's the main argument against devfs (which I have nothing against as
> an innovation, and everything against as am inevitable source of
> pointless misery for application maintainers when what we have _works_.
> Ditto non-exec stack.).
Rubbish. That's what the devfs compatibility stuff is there for. In
that mode it breaks none of your applications.
Pointless: not true
Misery: not true.
Regards,
Richard....
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