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-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 10:14:07 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Thorsten Kampe cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: ls Question + bug? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > * 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. > [snip] > Thorsten ... with completely unrealistic licensing (see the last paragraph of ). Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty. -- Leto II -- 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/