On Mon, May 10, 1999 at 01:35:20AM -0400, David Waite wrote: > > I would tend to call non-portability a bug. > Unfortunately non-portability is a bug that the programmer usually can't > test (as they only have one system). =)
But hey, what's free software for? :) > This would be what I would vote for. I feel that both /dev and /proc really > aren't that great, /proc is nice for users but things move and change format > so often that it breaks all sorts of programs. The trouble is that /proc is inconsistent even within itself (file formats and the like). However, the only programs that use /proc tend to be reasonably system-specific anyway, and could certainly be improved on a GNU/Hurd system. I'd like a "top" that's more like OpenBSD's systat program. > [...] I think that the Hurd project (I try not to say we* since all I have > *done so far is planned to write code, not contribute anything) needs to > get more developers and to get things like PPP working before this is an > option. Well, yes; it probably would make sense to have something to ship before we start shipping. :) Why is ppp support taking such as long time? Perhaps it would make sense to implement the simpler SLIP protocol first? -- Adam Sampson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
