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POSIX v. reality: A position on O_PONIESPOSIX v. reality: A position on O_PONIESPosted Sep 9, 2009 16:22 UTC (Wed) by njd27 (subscriber, #5770)Parent article: POSIX v. reality: A position on O_PONIES
And, I have to note, I did have a real, live pony when I was a kid, so I tend to be on the side of giving programmers ponies when they ask for them.The trouble of course, as any student of ponydynamics can tell you, is that once the kernel developers start handing out ponies as the solution to any difficult problem, the workload in having to deal with mucking them out might grow exponentially. Hence the reluctance. Worse might be better.
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POSIX v. reality: A position on O_PONIES Posted Sep 9, 2009 17:11 UTC (Wed) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]
That's why they should lie about the ponies. Say they are not going to give them ponies, but give it anyway and that way only smart people notice the herd and everybody else forgets about it and lives with the better file system.
POSIX v. reality: A position on O_PONIES Posted Sep 9, 2009 19:43 UTC (Wed) by martinfick (subscriber, #4455) [Link]
Hmm, seems to me they quietly gave the ponies years ago, and they are now recalling them.
Given and denied Posted Sep 9, 2009 21:59 UTC (Wed) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link] Indeed. And now they are saying it was in fact O_UNICORNS, so they were not really given to anyone.
Given and denied Posted Sep 9, 2009 22:59 UTC (Wed) by Tara_Li (subscriber, #26706) [Link]
O_UNICORNS aren't mythical - O_VIRGINS are.
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