From: Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Sleep-complexity
Date: Sun, 8 May 2005 22:06:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <edfe32e0c1274bfbc0d48858b0c54c3b@terzarima.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5f6f968c9411359f2fa273d7bd9fcccf@terzarima.net>
>>but evidently some people enjoy inflicting needless pain.
another example is the filth surrounding 64 bit file sizes and offsets on 'nix.
(give me strength.)
during the early streams/socket wars someone coined the term
`incompatibility library'. that's one that purports to provide compatibility
with another interface so you can use your existing source and binaries but gets it wrong
enough that you need to change and recompile them anyway,
so that you didn't need the library.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-08 21:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-08 12:03 Christoph Lohmann
2005-05-08 12:51 ` Sergey Reva
2005-05-08 16:50 ` Russ Cox
2005-05-08 17:28 ` Dan Cross
2005-05-08 18:56 ` jmk
2005-05-08 19:21 ` Bruce Ellis
2005-05-08 20:54 ` Charles Forsyth
2005-05-08 21:06 ` Charles Forsyth [this message]
2005-05-08 22:40 ` Dan Cross
2005-05-08 22:59 ` geoff
2005-05-09 7:28 ` Richard Miller
2005-05-09 13:14 ` Brantley Coile
2005-05-09 16:45 ` Mike Haertel
2005-05-09 20:10 ` Bruce Ellis
2005-05-09 22:46 ` Charles Forsyth
2005-05-09 7:41 ` David Tolpin
2005-05-08 21:12 ` Charles Forsyth
2005-05-09 13:29 ` Nigel Roles
2005-05-09 14:03 ` Charles Forsyth
2005-05-10 17:09 ` boyd, rounin
2005-05-10 17:15 ` jmk
2005-05-10 18:34 ` boyd, rounin
2005-05-10 18:39 ` rog
2005-05-10 19:27 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2005-05-10 21:02 ` David Leimbach
2005-05-10 21:20 ` Bruce Ellis
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