🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <4169@ecicrl.ocunix.on.ca> clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis) writes:

>BRL's MDQS (or MQDS, I'm sure I'll get yelled at again for spelling
>it wrong) does most of the above except for page seek...

  And BRL's code has been around for years, is known to work
reasonably well on several platforms, is nicely general, the code is
nicely portable, the code is freely distributable, ...

  Kind of makes one wonder why the POSIX.7 people didn't use something
like it as the basis for their work.  [begin sarcasm] I'm sure it
isn't because they can sell us Palladium for extra cost and then sell
us Palladium "support" (again extra cost) while they fix it so that it
works. [end sarcasm]

  Any matter, the main thing is that users and sys admins take a good
hard look at the POSIX proposal and seriously examine whether it is
suitable or not.  If there is a consensus it is good (IMHO unlikely)
then all is well, if the consensus is the other way the key thing is
to make sure that the users concerns are heard.  Having no standard is
much better than having a bad standard, IMHO.