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From: | Moritz Schulte |
Subject: | Re: weird PATH_MAX discussion in mplayer's list. (Fwd: [MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] fix for unconditional use of PATH_MAX) |
Date: | Fri, 02 May 2003 00:30:52 +0200 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.2 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) |
Robert Millan <zeratul2@wanadoo.es> writes: > yes, but these problems are OS-specific. Well, you could also say that they are program specific. > this means if a user installs GNU and then starts running software > that is full of GNU-specific bugs, he/she will come to the > conclussion that the system is flawed. I doubt that. Primarily because he/she will probably also be unable to use the software the same way on other Unix like systems. GNU is not worse, when someone uses a PATH_MAX limit, GNU is just not better. moritz -- moritz@duesseldorf.ccc.de - http://duesseldorf.ccc.de/~moritz/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
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