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From: Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@petrovitsch.priv.at>
To: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
Cc: "Ted Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>, Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>,
	Richard Yao <ryao@ic.sunysb.edu>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: UNIX Compatibility
Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 13:30:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1306409428.28597.79.camel@thorin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110525173846.GG8476@thunk.org>

On Mit, 2011-05-25 at 18:51 +0000, Michael Witten wrote:
[...] 
> A user should be able to request (possibly dynamically) as many
> standards-compliant interfaces as possible from Linux (even if that
> precludes new features or optimizations).

A user can request anything anytime since ages. But if no one implements
and maintains it, s/he can't so anything anyways - except to implement
and maintain it on his/her own.

Bernd
-- 
Bernd Petrovitsch                  Email : bernd@petrovitsch.priv.at
                     LUGA : http://www.luga.at


  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-05-26 11:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-24 11:49 UNIX Compatibility Richard Yao
2011-05-24 13:06 ` Theodore Tso
2011-05-24 13:54   ` Michael Witten
2011-05-24 14:49   ` Richard Yao
2011-05-24 18:16     ` Ted Ts'o
2011-05-24 18:31       ` Michael Witten
2011-05-25  4:18         ` Mike Galbraith
2011-05-25 14:20           ` Michael Witten
2011-05-25 14:36             ` Ted Ts'o
2011-05-25 15:17               ` Michael Witten
2011-05-25 17:38                 ` Ted Ts'o
2011-05-25 20:33                   ` Casey Schaufler
2011-05-26 11:30                   ` Bernd Petrovitsch [this message]
2011-05-26 11:30                 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2011-05-26 12:07                   ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2011-05-26 12:24                     ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2011-05-26 13:35                       ` Ted Ts'o
2011-05-25 21:06               ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2011-05-25 14:38             ` Ted Ts'o
2011-05-25 15:17             ` Mike Galbraith
2011-05-25 15:21               ` Michael Witten
2011-05-24 18:23     ` david

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