Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.quux.org!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Paul Edwards" Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: encapsulating directory operations Date: Fri, 30 May 2025 18:47:08 +1000 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 38 Message-ID: <101brah$db9b$1@dont-email.me> References: <100h650$23r5l$1@dont-email.me> <20250520065158.709@kylheku.com><100i2la$292le$1@dont-email.me> <87a5770xjw.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com><100j09o$2f04b$1@dont-email.me> <87tt5ezx9y.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com><100j4t3$2foah$1@dont-email.me> <87ldqqzfj0.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com> <100o6b0$3m4fq$1@dont-email.me><100oicc$3ob15$3@dont-email.me> <1010a93$1kqds$1@dont-email.me><1010bqn$1l25r$1@dont-email.me> <1010hdb$1m1i9$1@dont-email.me> <1019269$3olom$3@dont-email.me> Injection-Date: Fri, 30 May 2025 10:47:14 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="e06963cf3b56a88416800ec42106a6dc"; logging-data="437547"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/Dk0nsylbfTRmzEsYGrEpjFf55yx3I+JE=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:hXBo09yYbTx3arHSUW0DfgfYbDg= X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 Bytes: 2721 "Lawrence D'Oliveiro" wrote in message news:1019269$3olom$3@dont-email.me... > On Mon, 26 May 2025 11:50:30 +1000, Paul Edwards wrote: > > > "Lawrence D'Oliveiro" wrote in message > > news:1010bqn$1l25r$1@dont-email.me... > >> > >> On Mon, 26 May 2025 09:48:46 +1000, Paul Edwards wrote: > >> > >>> "people nowadays" don't speak with one voice. > >> > >> Nor with one language. Which is why we have Unicode. > > > > Which is one solution to the problem. > > > > Just not a solution I agree with. > > It's the one most of the nations of the world agree with. They may not agree if they are suddenly exposed to resource constraints. > > I prefer VISCII-like, possibly requiring a 9-bit char, and invalidating > > all applications with POSIX assumptions. > > Are you going to set up your own UN as well? You could call it the "World > Series of Nations" ... Sort of. I'm going to have the only understandable, maintainable and maintained open source OS. When the appropriate resource constraints kick in - including the emerging lack of skilled programmers in Idiocracy, it will be a race to the bottom, where PDOS serves as a backstop. As designed. BFN. Paul.