Re: [RFC] POSIX personality

[Dave McCracken <dmccr@us.ibm.com>]

--On Tuesday, May 28, 2002 01:26:28 PM -0400 Michael Sinz <msinz@wgate.com>
wrote:

>> I've been thinking along those lines myself.  At this point I'd suggest
>> we implement them as separate, then if in the future no one ever uses
>> them separately we can consider combining them.  I know this can raise
>> some backward compatibility issues but in theory if anyone cares we
>> wouldn't do it.
> 
> I would be worried about the future compatibility here.  It would be
> easier to be compatible to start with a single bit and then add
> individual bits for those features that need to be broken out when it is
> know to be needed. Folding the bits back in is not as easy as you now
> have to still support the individual but yet unneeded.

That's a good point.  But at this point I don't see any items where we can
say up front that everyone will want all or none of them.  I suspect we'll
just have to live with them as separate flags.

Dave

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