Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Thorsten Kampe Subject: Re: ls Question + bug? Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 16:42:37 +0200 Lines: 32 Message-ID: References: <17x3k3weekv90.dlg@thorstenkampe.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.3.1 * Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) (03-04-01 11:30 +0100) >> From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf >> Of Thorsten Kampe >>> Really soon -> a dead computer. (Powercycling is all that works >> after that) >> >> Your computer cannot be more dead than Windows 98 already is. Using an >> Operating System would you give something like "maximum recursion >> limit exceeded". > > ;-) as I see it any MS generated "OS" has strange limitations/obscurities, > the above is an obvious one in W98. > Remember where it all began; "Quick And Dirty Dos" -> very few changes -> > "MS-DOS 1.0". NT 4, 5 ("2000"), 5.1 ("XP") and now 5.2 ("Server 2003") have a stable kernel that doesn't have its roots in DOS. > IMO the sense of it is still there, even in NT. Can't tell about XP - but I > would be surprised if the changes were that many. XP is the first rocksolid Windows OS. > I've been running _well known_ applications on NT that misbehaved every day. But they didn't normally crush the whole system. Thorsten -- Content-Type: text/explicit; charset=ISO-8859-666 (Parental Advisory) Content-Transfer-Warning: message contains innuendos not suited for children under the age of 18 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/