Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268421AbUIGSck (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Sep 2004 14:32:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268400AbUIGSbw (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Sep 2004 14:31:52 -0400 Received: from rwcrmhc12.comcast.net ([216.148.227.85]:51963 "EHLO rwcrmhc12.comcast.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268356AbUIGSZv (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Sep 2004 14:25:51 -0400 X-Comment: AT&T Maillennium special handling code - c Message-ID: <413DFC06.5070604@namesys.com> Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 11:20:54 -0700 From: Hans Reiser User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gunnar Ritter CC: David Masover , Christer Weinigel , Horst von Brand , viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, Linus Torvalds , Tonnerre , Spam , ReiserFS List , Pavel Machek , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Jamie Lokier , Christoph Hellwig , Alexander Lyamin aka FLX , Chris Wedgwood Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 References: <200409070206.i8726vrG006493@localhost.localdomain> <413D4C18.6090501@slaphack.com> <413DA8EE.nailA301JQ74H@pluto.uni-freiburg.de> In-Reply-To: <413DA8EE.nailA301JQ74H@pluto.uni-freiburg.de> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.85.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 694 Lines: 20 Gunnar Ritter wrote: > > >You cannot just 'modify cp'. > People who think that POSIX is the objective rather than the least common denominator of OS design have had their head screwed on backwards to better look at where their competitors used to be. However, I agree that streams suck. That is why reiser4 just has files and directories and not streams. Our files and directories just happen to be able to do all that streams can do. Hans - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/