From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: rhw@InfraDead.Org
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Harry Kalogirou <harkal@gmx.net>,
Linux-8086 <linux-8086@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Filesystem creation
Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 18:47:14 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E177gOI-0008QS-00@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0205141337210.12716-100000@Consulate.UFP.CX> from "Riley Williams" at May 14, 2002 01:44:32 PM
> > That would break the expected but daft old Unix API
>
> I have to admit that I didn't even know there was a Unix API to break
> and from a personal viewpoint I'd be a lot more interested in building
> compatibility to the current Linux system on the assumption that if the
> API is important in the Unix world as a whole, then Linux will already
> follow it, and if Linux doesn't, then the API can't be that important.
Linux fdisk/mkfs also behave the same wacky way
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-05-14 17:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-05-12 1:23 Filesystem creation lnordstrom
2002-05-12 20:04 ` Riley Williams
2002-05-13 8:59 ` Javier Sedano
2002-05-13 12:02 ` Harry Kalogirou
2002-05-13 17:42 ` Riley Williams
2002-05-13 23:52 ` Alan Cox
2002-05-14 6:56 ` Riley Williams
2002-05-14 12:44 ` Riley Williams
2002-05-14 17:47 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2002-05-14 17:59 ` Riley Williams
2002-05-14 23:41 ` Alan Cox
2002-05-15 17:52 ` Riley Williams
[not found] ` <3CE0283D.264@havn.com>
2002-05-14 21:01 ` Harry Kalogirou
2002-05-15 1:18 ` Alan Cox
2002-05-15 17:05 ` Riley Williams
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-05-13 2:33 lnordstrom
2002-05-12 23:07 ` Riley Williams
2002-05-13 14:22 ` Dan Olson
2002-05-13 17:36 ` Riley Williams
2002-05-13 23:50 ` Alan Cox
2002-05-14 0:12 ` Dan Olson
2002-05-14 7:06 ` Riley Williams
2002-05-14 23:31 ` Dan Olson
2002-05-14 6:54 ` Riley Williams
2002-05-14 23:36 ` Dan Olson
2002-05-14 0:19 ` Dan Olson
2002-05-14 6:42 ` Riley Williams
2002-05-14 23:48 ` Dan Olson
2002-05-15 0:12 ` Alan Cox
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