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Where the the correctness go?

Where the the correctness go?

Posted Mar 16, 2009 12:00 UTC (Mon) by nye (guest, #51576)
In reply to: Where the the correctness go? by bojan
Parent article: Ts'o: Delayed allocation and the zero-length file problem

POSIX also allows a system crash to cause your computer to explode and hurl shrapnel into your face, because crash-behaviour is *undefined*. Are you seriously arguing that *any* POSIX-compliant behaviour is automatically the right thing? Clearly not, because you are arguing against one POSIX-compliant method in favour of another. There are an infinite number of ways to be POSIX-compliant, some of which are more useful than others.


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