On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 19:06 +0100, Bas Wijnen wrote: > On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 12:42:31PM -0500, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote: > > It can be done, but the file system in question is unable to make any > > reasonable specification of latency, and we are now done with any > > consideration of even soft real time for this file system. > > IMO giving no reasonable specification of latency in a case where the process > supplies a real long filename is not a problem. If the process cannot handle > it, it can limit the size itself.
No no. The file system can no longer make any specification of latency for *any* file, because the act of locating *other* files may require a name comparison on an arbitrarily long name along the way. shap _______________________________________________ L4-hurd mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/l4-hurd
