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[Alfred Perlstein]

* Ivan Voras <ivoras at fer.hr> [070513 16:02] wrote:
> Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> > * Ivan Voras <ivoras at fer.hr> [070513 15:12] wrote:
> 
> >> Even if it's forbidden by POSIX or other standards, FreeBSD isn't
> >> popular enough to be one of the systems that don't support it.
> > 
> > I don't know about that, for the longest time Linux's "fsync"
> > call was async because it was "faster", I'd not like to compete
> > on those terms.  Worse is not better.
> 
> Of course not, but I dragged out an example where the implementation
> could handle a situation, but chose not to (any that only in certain
> cases) in the name of standards compliance.  I consider this wrong
> because the "lenient" behaviour is a superset of required one, and in
> any case the choice shouldn't be made based on uid.
> 
> In short, "beware of arbitrary standards' compliance" :)

I agree, but I don't see a way to do this without pessimizing
malloc/free performance.  I should have a look at what glibc
does to see how it impacts them.



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- Alfred Perlstein