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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!uunet!mcsun!ieunet!dec4ie.ieunet.ie!jkh From: jkh@whisker.lotus.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) Subject: Re: A challenge to all true hackers: objects and types In-Reply-To: arnej@imf.unit.no's message of 24 Mar 93 11: 37:44 Message-ID: <JKH.93Mar25020256@whisker.lotus.ie> Sender: usenet@ieunet.ie (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: whisker.lotus.ie Organization: Lotus Development Ireland References: <JKH.93Mar9214944@whisker.lotus.ie> <C3ow4H.FID@BitBlocks.com> <JKH.93Mar15175727@whisker.lotus.ie> <1993Mar20.145007.1@vxcrna.cern.ch> <JKH.93Mar20153113@whisker.lotus.ie> <ARNEJ.93Mar24113744@chanur.imf.unit.no> Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1993 02:02:56 GMT Lines: 22 >I'm using apollo Domain/OS SR10.4 (newest version) every day. And I >don't agree AT ALL. Apollo's filesystems break too many programs, >including the bundled C compiler. (You can't compile any file that is This is not a generic object-store implementation problem, this is an apollo implementation problem. >I also think that variant links using environment variables is a BAD >idea. Do you realize this means that EVERY BLOODY program that sets >environment variables must be very cautious about how it is done, and I don't see this at all. There are already a number of environment variables that one shouldn't set, like PATH, TERM, LANG, etc. Why is this any different? That is a very silly argument against a feature that potentially buys you so much more. Jordan -- Jordan Hubbard Lotus Development Ireland jkh@whisker.lotus.ie 386bsd Patchkit Coordinator All-around nice dude. I do not speak for Lotus as that's not in my job description.