Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 20:14:18 -0300 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: Jason Andresen <jandrese@mitre.org> Cc: Greg Black <gjb@gbch.net>, void <float@firedrake.org>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: technical comparison Message-ID: <3B0D95CA.313F6AB6@newsguy.com> References: <20010524082013.G88992-100000@nausicaa.mitre.org> <nospam-990735453.93235@maxim.gbch.net> <3B0D705B.189A5C28@mitre.org>
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Jason Andresen wrote: > > > And if this imaginary program is going to do that, it's equally > > easy to use a multilevel directory structure and that will make > > the life of all users of the system simpler. There's no real > > excuse for directories with millions (or even thousands) of > > files. > > No, there is no excuse, however some third party application (FOR WHICH > YOU DO > NOT HAVE THE SOURCE[1]) may do it anyway. In the original parent of > this post > that was the exact situtation. It would be nice if everybody followed > the rules > and played nice, but it is just something you can't count on in real > life. Uhhh, no. The original message was remarking about a software development team which repeatedly fail to deliver the product to the specs asked for, and that said team blamed FreeBSD and wanted Linux instead. So the comment applies. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@the.secret.bsdconspiracy.net wow regex humor... I'm a geek To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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