On 2024-05-03, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <
ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
On Thu, 2 May 2024 14:47:24 +0100, James Harris wrote:
A number of years ago
I came up with what I thought was a sensible design for a paging system.
I later found that it corresponded very closely to the one used in
Windows and differed markedly from the paging system used in Linux. I
remember thinking that the latter was not a good design ...
Look at all the effort those smart Microsoft engineers had to go to,
just to get Windows file copying to work properly: <https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-blog-archive/inside-vista-sp1-file-copy-improvements/ba-p/723622>
Sounds like a lot of gratuitous complexity, aggravated by their penchant
for lying about when something is done. But M$ file copying issues are
nothing new - many of us still remember being stung by the MS-DOS COPY command's refusal to copy a zero-length file (although it still deleted
a like-named file at the destination if it existed).
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