"Stephen J. Turnbull" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sure. As someone who uses Linux for Coda clients far more than any > other OS, though, I want any revision here to be *designed* with this > particular wart in mind. I see no reason to believe it will go away > any time soon.
Sure - I agree fully. > That may conflict with clean design for BSD-style OSes, I'm afraid, so > compromises may have to made. In that case I don't want Linux > deprecated because its interface is "unclean". I wasn't suggesting deprecating Linux, and no one would take such a suggestion seriously. My point is merely that it would be good to actually have a design for how interface/implemenations match up and to ensure that they are consistent, rather than how it's evolved. Certainly accomodating the realities of the world is part of such a design.
