hmm, on Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 05:12:32PM +0200, Artur Grabowski said that > -f <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > hi there, > > > > i was looking at BitTorrent, and this caught my attention: > > > > --enable_bad_libc_workaround <arg> > > enable workaround for a bug in BSD libc that makes file reads > > very slow. (defaults to 1) > > > > > > anybody knows what does this mean, and is openbsd affected? > > It means "The whole world is Linux, everything that is not linux is > bad. We design our software so that it uses hidden features and bugs > of glibc. If any other libc doesn't implement those bugs or unstandard > features it's bad and needs to suffer." > > Noone has ever explained what the problem is. Just that somehow "BSD > libc" is bad.
i don't know python closely, but it never struck me as a linux only community, at least they are not GPL as far as i can tell. -- after two weeks of dieting, all i lost was two weeks.
