Re: userspace breakage

Jeff V. Merkey
2005-12-30T15:19:09Z

Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:

>On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 15:17 -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
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>>Start caring. People spend lots of money supporting you, and what you
>>are doing. How about taking some
>>responsibility for that so they don't change their minds and move back
>>to windows or pull their support because it's too
>>costly or too much of a hassle to produce something stable from these
>>releases. If you export functions from the kernel,
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>The "program a driver once, runs on every windows in the future" is
>actually a myth. Talk to developers with windows drivers ....
>It is just that the companies absolutely don't have a choice if MSFT
>changes something ....
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> Bernd
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I support and write FS drivers for windows. The same driver works on
2002, 2002, 2003, and XP. Longhorn have changed two IFS functions
and that's it, and still loads the older fs drivers through a compat
interface.

Jeff