Re: userspace breakage

[Bernd Petrovitsch]

On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 07:53 -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
> Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:
> >On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 15:17 -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
> >[...]
> >>Start caring. People spend lots of money supporting you, and what you 
> >>are doing. How about taking some
> >>responsibility for that so they don't change their minds and move back 
> >>to windows or pull their support because it's too
> >>costly or too much of a hassle to produce something stable from these 
> >>releases. If you export functions from the kernel,
> >
> >The "program a driver once, runs on every windows in the future" is
> >actually a myth. Talk to developers with windows drivers ....
> >It is just that the companies absolutely don't have a choice if MSFT
> >changes something ....
> >
> I support and write FS drivers for windows.   The same driver works on 
> 2002, 2002, 2003, and XP.  Longhorn have changed two IFS functions

Which are basically 2 stable versions (2000 & XP).
No 3.1, 95 and 98 support before?
Apart from that there are other drivers as FS drivers too.

> and that's it, and still loads the older fs drivers through a compat 
> interface.


	Bernd
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