Re: unremovable files and possible fs corruption (2.1.123)
David Holland (dholland@cs.toronto.edu)
Fri, 9 Oct 1998 15:39:15 -0400
> It is for structures that are badly designed, like (unfortunately) many
> Unix structures. This is one thing Microsoft got right. Almost all
> system-defined structures start out with a field that the user fills in
> with the size of the structure before giving it to the system. If new
> fields have been added at the end that the program doesn't know about,
> the system simply doesn't fill them. As long as MS limits themselves
> to only adding new fields at the end and not changing the meaning of the
> old fields, they don't break old software.
This is gross. Better techniques have been in use for years.
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