> As Valentin points out, if this law passes > in france, then it could quite well become > law in all parts of the EU. That is frightening, > but might happen.
No, this is wrong, EU law becomes national law more or less automatically, the reverse is never true. This would require the EU countries to agree on this great idea by a sufficient majority (or unanimity, depending on the kind of decision).
We're running a data center with more than seven Terabytes of storage. The data is stored on a few dozen FreeBSD servers. We have approximately the same number of Linux machines which perform tasks where the additional device support and extra Linux functionality are useful. We've never ever had a FreeBSD file system problem (apart from bad hardware of course). I have seen several instances of Linux completely thrashing its file systems, to the point of needing a reinstallation (with various kernel versions). There are also a few performance problems in ext2fs, like the time it needs to delete big files. The data is staying on the FreeBSD servers, we're keeping the Linux machines for the tasks where they're worth suffering a little instability, and all is well:-).
There is at least one UNIX API problem that could transform quite a few programs into core dumps. Probably most of you know about it, but if it can be useful to one...
As everybody knows tm_year is now defined as the difference between year 1900 and current year, and it goes to 3 digits next year. What about:
You may happen to be certain that there is none of this in your programs and none in any open source stuff that you are using, but what about the myriads of commercial programs which are making our world function ?
I think this *used* to be legit code because tm_year *used* to be defined as the two last digits of year (not sure though, anyone with access to old manuals?)
I certainly found a few instances of code like this in *my* programs (happily enough I tend to allocate 'just a few more bytes' for buffers, so this wouldn't have had consequence).
This problem is not of the minor malfunction kind. It will probably stop a few things dead.
Just to set it straight. Pete Townshend album IS available in.mp3 format (and.wma too). The link is http://www.musicmaker.com, and you have to click on mp3 in the image, not wma, if that's what you want... And I'm with musicmaker so this might be advertising but it's information too. Or what?
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> As Valentin points out, if this law passes
> in france, then it could quite well become
> law in all parts of the EU. That is frightening,
> but might happen.
No, this is wrong, EU law becomes national law more or less automatically, the reverse is never true. This would require the EU countries to agree on this great idea by a sufficient majority (or unanimity, depending on the kind of decision).
We're running a data center with more than seven Terabytes of storage. The data is stored on a few dozen FreeBSD servers. We have approximately the same number of Linux machines which perform tasks where the additional device support and extra Linux functionality are useful. We've never ever had a FreeBSD file system problem (apart from bad hardware of course). I have seen several instances of Linux completely thrashing its file systems, to the point of needing a reinstallation (with various kernel versions). There are also a few performance problems in ext2fs, like the time it needs to delete big files. The data is staying on the FreeBSD servers, we're keeping the Linux machines for the tasks where they're worth suffering a little instability, and all is well :-).
There is at least one UNIX API problem that could transform quite a few programs into core dumps.
Probably most of you know about it, but if it can be useful to one...
As everybody knows tm_year is now defined as the difference between year 1900 and current year, and it goes to 3 digits next year. What about:
char buf[5]
sprintf(buf, "%02d%02d", t.tm_year, t.tm_mon);
See the problem ?
You may happen to be certain that there is none of this in your programs and none in any open source stuff that you are using, but what about the myriads of commercial programs which are making our world function ?
I think this *used* to be legit code because tm_year *used* to be defined as the two last digits of year (not sure though, anyone with access to old manuals?)
I certainly found a few instances of code like this in *my* programs (happily enough I tend to allocate 'just a few more bytes' for buffers, so this wouldn't have had consequence).
This problem is not of the minor malfunction kind. It will probably stop a few things dead.
Just to set it straight. Pete Townshend album IS available in .mp3 format (and .wma too). The link is http://www.musicmaker.com, and you have to click on mp3 in the image, not wma, if that's what you want... And I'm with musicmaker so this might be advertising but it's information too. Or what?