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- Submitted-by: rja7m@plaid.cs.Virginia.EDU (Ran Atkinson)
-
- In article <545@usenix.ORG> ske@pkmab.se (Kristoffer Eriksson) writes:
-
- >What prevents us from inventing a few additional filesystem operations
- >that ARE general enough?
-
- PLEASE. Let's don't go off inventing new things as part of a standards
- effort. The proper way to approach standardisation is to standardise
- the existing practice and avoid all new inventions that haven't been
- fully implemented and tested widely. Many of the problems with UNIX-derived
- OSs have come from folks who didn't do this and ended up with stuff that
- wasn't really compatible with the rest of the OS in function or approach.
-
- A lot of the problems I see coming out of the working groups in P1003
- come from folks failing to standardise existing practice and instead
- going off and inventing a new idea in the committee that hasn't been
- implemented and lacks adequate actual experience with whether the idea
- really works and is a general solution to a real problem.
-
- Randall Atkinson
- randall@Virginia.EDU
-
- Volume-Number: Volume 21, Number 140
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-