From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757259Ab1EYOic (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 May 2011 10:38:32 -0400 Received: from li9-11.members.linode.com ([67.18.176.11]:35028 "EHLO test.thunk.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757023Ab1EYOib (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 May 2011 10:38:31 -0400 Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 10:38:26 -0400 From: "Ted Ts'o" To: Michael Witten Cc: Mike Galbraith , Richard Yao , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: UNIX Compatibility Message-ID: <20110525143826.GF8476@thunk.org> Mail-Followup-To: Ted Ts'o , Michael Witten , Mike Galbraith , Richard Yao , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20110524181619.GC26055@thunk.org> <1306297108.4819.28.camel@marge.simson.net> <64e4614dda6f4558a68a314d7b5979b5-mfwitten@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <64e4614dda6f4558a68a314d7b5979b5-mfwitten@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: tytso@thunk.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on test.thunk.org); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 02:20:09PM +0000, Michael Witten wrote: > > Ted just got finished telling Richard that Richard thinks about tiny, > nit-picky, really stupid stuff on which only egg-headed paper pushers > waste time that they'll never get back. P.S. I never said that, and it's manifestly not true. Given that Richard apparently doesn't know the first thing about whether the SUS is an API or ABI specification (i.e., whether or not errno numeric values matter), it's clear he's not an egg-headed paper pusher. :-) I'm just trying to convince him not to get seduced into the dark side of the standards world. :-) - Ted