On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 04:29:29PM -0600, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > actually, yes you can. if you have a cluster filesystem (like GFS) > and syslog only opens the logfile for appending when it needs to write > something,
Those ifs are large. Any file system standard can not assume such things as cluster filesystems or specific behaviour of syslog. > but it *can* be done. It can be done but not in a way that is of any interest for the standard. > I mostly bring it up as an example of a reason we should retain > flexibility in our standards, to accomodate uses that the designers hadn't > conceived of. :) This is not the purpose of a standard. The purpose of a standard is exactly the opposite. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de _______________________________________________ Help-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-hurd
