From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 24 16:15:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from newsguy.com (smtp.newsguy.com [209.155.56.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05C2237B423 for ; Thu, 24 May 2001 16:15:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com (ppp185-bsace7001.telebrasilia.net.br [200.181.80.185]) by newsguy.com (8.11.0/8.9.1) with ESMTP id f4ONDPF05386; Thu, 24 May 2001 16:13:26 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3B0D95CA.313F6AB6@newsguy.com> Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 20:14:18 -0300 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,pt,en-GB,en-US,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jason Andresen Cc: Greg Black , void , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: technical comparison References: <20010524082013.G88992-100000@nausicaa.mitre.org> <3B0D705B.189A5C28@mitre.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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