Joerg Schilling schilling@fokus.gmd.de wrote:
Subscribe to opengroup.org to get free access to the standards....
I read this and I thought: How is paying US$2500 free access to the standards?
Digging (very) deep in that site, it appears that I may not have to pay now, but they "reserve the right to charge for HTML/PDF versions of its publications in the future". Only a fool would agree to pay an unspecified amount at an unspecified future date.
POSIX contains SCCS but does not contain VCS.
Surely that is POSIX's flaw?
Also the RCS repository file format is prone to faults.
How so?
No checksum and a backward delta.
Checksums would be a slight problem, yes. Surely the backward delta is just the generated patch applied in reverse?
In former times, this caused problems with flaky HW in out time this causes problems with flaky the Linux NFS implementation....
Sorry, I don't buy this. OS bugs aren't the application's concern. I mean, memory sometimes fails: should the application do its own parity checking too? I can see why distributed repositories etc are good for reliability, but not trusting the platform is the road to madness.