From: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] AFS-client for Plan9 - ?
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 03:20:03 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0011150314190.6681-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E13vxdh-000JOA-0C@finch-post-12.mail.demon.net>
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000 nigel@9fs.org wrote:
> Let me explain (and, yes, this is a quote from Fawlty Towers)
>
> Programs which do not explicitly close flies before invoking exit() are
> not
>
> 1) badly written
Sure.
> or
>
> 2) forcing Unix implementations to have to do close on exit to compensate
Sure.
> These are the defined semantics. So the reason is "because that's what
> the program quite reasonably expects".
... and so many programs _do_ expect it (quite reasonably) that changing
that behaviour would require the audit and rewrite of the whole userland.
Folks, how about finally agreeing that we agree and stopping that subthread?
It's getting really silly.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-11-15 8:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-11-15 8:10 nigel
2000-11-15 8:20 ` Alexander Viro [this message]
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2000-11-20 15:25 rog
2000-11-21 16:04 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2000-11-14 23:57 David Gordon Hogan
2000-11-13 20:22 presotto
2000-11-13 20:19 anothy
2000-11-14 9:58 ` Wladimir Mutel
[not found] ` <mwg@alkar.net>
2000-11-14 22:33 ` Tom Duff
2000-11-14 22:41 ` Boyd Roberts
2000-11-14 22:41 ` Alexander Viro
2000-11-14 22:51 ` Boyd Roberts
[not found] ` <boyd@planete.net>
2000-11-14 23:02 ` Tom Duff
2000-11-20 10:55 ` Chris Locke
2000-11-20 10:56 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2000-11-20 13:24 ` Boyd Roberts
[not found] ` <viro@math.psu.edu>
2000-11-14 23:00 ` Tom Duff
2000-11-14 23:15 ` Alexander Viro
2000-11-14 23:54 ` Tom Duff
2000-11-15 0:31 ` Alexander Viro
2000-11-15 0:38 ` Boyd Roberts
[not found] <200011131639.eADGdhI37677@smtp3.alkar.net>
2000-11-13 17:03 ` Wladimir Mutel
2000-11-13 16:39 presotto
2000-11-14 15:20 ` Boyd Roberts
2000-11-13 16:30 Wladimir Mutel
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