On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 8:54 AM, roger peppe <rogpe...@gmail.com> wrote: > why hasn't that old unix restriction been removed yet? > is there any point to it at all any more?
They depend on it now more than ever. Don't believe me? Just look at what port many people use for NFS nowadays. Lots of bad things have never been fixed, and this is one of them. I guess it's more fun to lard GUI software over top and hope nobody notices. ron
