At Wed, 11 Apr 2007 10:56:18 +0200, Neal H. Walfield wrote: > > At Tue, 10 Apr 2007 22:10:01 -0700, > Thomas Bushnell BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > [1 <text/plain (quoted-printable)>] > > On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 21:44 +0200, Thomas Schwinge wrote: > > > Hello! > > > > > > We're still being again and again annoyed by programs that use `PATH_MAX' > > > unconditionally. > > > > Why stop with this one? Let's just drop all the Hurd features and > > implement the same interface as Linux, as exactly as we can make it. > > Legacy compatibility has always ruled the day. As I understood it, > the idea was to write an OS, not a distribution.
That's not completely true. The goal of the GNU project is to write a complete system. Of course, our task within that is only a small part. Thanks, Marcus _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list Bug-hurd@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
