On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 12:08 +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Kaiwai Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > So this is sketched out roughly, but no coding has started on this > yet > > > (and, given my commitments changed, isn't going to start by myself > any > > > time soon either). > > > > Cool but in regards to how the FAT is read, that is, dumping the > whole > > thing in memory rather than a gradual read - is that going to be a > > addressed soon? > > This is wat I found when doing a code review on the changes. > > It seems that there needs to be a "paying customer" who files a bug > report. > > The original intention from Frank was to totally rewrite pcfs but this > has been > stopped in spring due to lack of resources.
One could argue that a paying customer doesn't use Solaris for that very reason. Its like waiting for the customer and the customer won't move till that issue is addressed; chicken before the egg. I can understand the reluctance by Sun to fund pie-in-the-sky ideas that don't go anywhere but I'm talking about basic fundamental components of an operating system which are key to interoperability. Matthew _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
