Re: gnome

[Havoc Pennington <rhpennin midway uchicago edu>]

On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Jimen Ching wrote:
> 
> This is not a conceptual problem, nor is it an implementation problem,
> this is a design problem.  By creating a library fs implementation, you
> are changing the UNIX OS design philosophy.  My question to you all is, do
> you really know what you're doing when you do this?
> 
> If it was anything else besides a fs implementation, then I would agree it
> belongs in a library.  It is just that in a monolithic kernel the fs
> belongs in the kernel, period.
> 

You are not considering all the design goals. One of them is to work on
all modern Unix variants. We can't change the kernel on all Unix variants. 
Therefore, any functionality we want to be an essential part of Gnome must
be implemented outside the kernel. Period. 

Havoc