Re: Re[4]: contact handles and we want to have your children

[Ross Wm. Rader]

> > The original thinking was that handles should not be part of the
> > system because handles were broken. In fact however, it was only NSI's
> > implementation of handles that were broken and we very much needed
> > handles (just not broken ones).
>
> Ross,
>
> Could you elaborate on this a bit.  In what way did you find NSI's
> implementation of handles to be broken?

Simply that when you didn't specify one, one was assigned to you. I have
about 40 of them...

If we'd looked closer at this particular irk, then we'd probably have
implemented a much more comprehensive solution. Unfortunately, we didn't go
deep enough on the issue.

-rwr