Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 01:01:22 +0200 From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr> To: Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS DOWN Message-ID: <464798C2.8030307@fer.hr> In-Reply-To: <20070513225031.GC21795@elvis.mu.org> References: <20070512153532.GQ21795@elvis.mu.org> <63984.1178992555@critter.freebsd.dk> <f25m78$ik$2@sea.gmane.org> <20070513215442.GZ21795@elvis.mu.org> <46478C9A.9050807@fer.hr> <20070513225031.GC21795@elvis.mu.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr> [070513 15:12] wrote: >> Even if it's forbidden by POSIX or other standards, FreeBSD isn't >> popular enough to be one of the systems that don't support it. > > I don't know about that, for the longest time Linux's "fsync" > call was async because it was "faster", I'd not like to compete > on those terms. Worse is not better. Of course not, but I dragged out an example where the implementation could handle a situation, but chose not to (any that only in certain cases) in the name of standards compliance. I consider this wrong because the "lenient" behaviour is a superset of required one, and in any case the choice shouldn't be made based on uid. In short, "beware of arbitrary standards' compliance" :) [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGR5jCldnAQVacBcgRAiaLAKDHRMsHhWkxCCpON53jGOQZtNenygCgvxx/ GARRNz2TVAK/X7vAD+0fpi4= =Dhyh -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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