>Granted, I was reared by my parents (or wolves; historians aren't sure on that point) to believe that it is ok.
My parents -WERE- wolves ... har, har. "Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night: God said, 'Let Newton Be!' and all was light." - Alexander Pope "It did not last; the Devil howling 'Ho! Let Einstein Be!' restored the status quo." - John Collings Squire "God Rolled his dice, to Einstein's great dismay: 'Let Feynman Be!' and all was clear as day." - Jagdish Mehra Gordon W. Wolfe, Ph. D. VM Technical Services, The Boeing Company > ---------- > From: Alan Altmark > Reply To: Linux on 390 Port > Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 5:12 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: more "cause code 0x22" and /etc/chandev.conf > > On Wednesday, 03/10/2004 at 06:49 CST, Richard Troth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > You let VM and MVS kernels read "plain files". > > > Why should Linux be different? > > > > Where and when and how MVS and VM read plain files > > doesn't necessarily match where, when, how Linux does. > > Even if they lined up, it doesn't follow that Linux should follow. > > VM is wonderful, as you know, Alan. But just because VM > > does something doesn't make it right. > > > > Why should Linux be different? > > Because of the Unix model Linux is based on. > > Another example would be where MVS has such a weak notion of > > filesystem. Unix, Windows, OS/2, and many others, including > > CMS and CP, all have a much stronger concept of "filesystem". > > FS is one point. User/kernel sep is another. > > MVS has a filesystem that is integrated into the base operating system; it > seems pretty strong to me. It is CP has *no* integrated filesystem. > > I find nothing inherently evil about a kernel reading user-space files. > Granted, I was reared by my parents (or wolves; historians aren't sure on > that point) to believe that it is ok. Apparently others were brought up > to believe otherwise. I can respect that. > > "Because that's the way it's always been done" doesn't *have* to be the > rule we live by, eh? :-) > > Alan Altmark > Sr. Software Engineer > IBM z/VM Development > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
