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alan,

good to know.  it's a nice piece of engineering.  it's useful to note that 
linux has such a long and rich history of breaking de-facto standards in 
order to make things work better.

t.

On 12 Sep 2002, Alan Cox wrote:

> On Thu, 2002-09-12 at 14:57, Todd Underwood wrote:
> > thanks.  although i'd love to take credit, i don't think that the 
> > reverse-order fragmentation appreciation is all that original:  who 
> > wouldn't want their data sctructure size determined up-front? :-) (not to 
> > mention getting header-overwriting for-free as part of the single copy.
> 
> As far as I am aware it was original when Linux first did it (and we
> broke cisco pix, some boot proms, some sco in the process). Credit goes
> to Arnt Gulbrandsen probably better known nowdays for his work on Qt
> 

-- 
todd underwood, vp & cto
oso grande technologies, inc.
todd@osogrande.com

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