>>> On 3/9/2011 at 06:06 PM, Scott Rohling <scott.rohl...@gmail.com> wrote: > It seems the goal 'would' be to document 'every last thing that can be put > in those files' to me as well.. Why code for it if you're not going to > document it? 'Mystery features' and 'hacks' are for games ;-)
I don't know. Why doesn't IBM document every last machine instruction, diagnose code, the QDIO architecture, etc.? Some things you just want people to use the documented interfaces for, and let the tools handle things. Based on the number of service requests I've had to handle for people that didn't want to use the tools, but didn't spend the time to really understand the internals, that's not an entirely ludicrous philosophy. Personally, I would prefer to see it all documented, but I'm not in charge. Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
