On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 15:08 +0200, Michal Suchanek wrote: > On 10/26/05, Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At Wed, 26 Oct 2005 22:43:06 +0200, > > Bas Wijnen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If you want stability, you probably want to do some of the following: > > * allocate a fixed amount of resources statically up front, > > instead dynamically at run time. > > I kind of dislike this. That is one of the things that is nice in > Hurd/Mach: you have no limit on the size of strings like filenames. I > do not think I would like a filename that has 1M characters, but I do > not know what is the "reasonable limit" for filename length.
I don't know anybody who *does* like this, but go read your sentence again. What you are saying is: "I want the system to run robustly, but I am unable to specify the conditions under which it must do so." This just won't work. It isn't even a kernel vs. application issue. shap _______________________________________________ L4-hurd mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/l4-hurd
