From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: emacs & MAXPATHLEN Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 13:13:48 +0200 Message-ID: <85mznyq7ir.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <8564upv8k1.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <85hde7t8n2.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <85hde6rz82.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <20050804104409.GB4396@kenny.sha-bang.local> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1123244132 24733 80.91.229.2 (5 Aug 2005 12:15:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2005 12:15:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ams@gnu.org, gscrivano@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 05 14:15:30 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from mail-relay.eunet.no ([193.71.71.242]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E1168-0005W7-4E for ged-emacs-devel@gmane.org; Fri, 05 Aug 2005 14:14:48 +0200 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org (lists.gnu.org [199.232.76.165]) by mail-relay.eunet.no (8.13.1/8.13.1/GN) with ESMTP id j74BQC8P099108 for ; Thu, 4 Aug 2005 13:26:12 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org) Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E0duL-0005By-Q6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2005 07:29:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E0dpN-0004F4-JD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2005 07:23:57 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E0dpJ-0004Cj-Aw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2005 07:23:53 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E0dpI-00043o-92 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2005 07:23:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1E0dsS-0007ZV-Um for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2005 07:27:09 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1E0de8-0001CT-O5; Thu, 04 Aug 2005 07:12:21 -0400 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 69BA81D46074; Thu, 4 Aug 2005 13:13:49 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <20050804104409.GB4396@kenny.sha-bang.local> (Sascha Wilde's message of "Thu, 4 Aug 2005 12:44:09 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:41530 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:41530 Sascha Wilde writes: > On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 08:30:05AM +0200, David Kastrup wrote: >> "Richard M. Stallman" writes: > >> > Linux is not really a program in the usual sense. >> > >> > It is a program, in the usual sense of the word. >> > You must have some unusual sense of the word in mind. >> >> >> > > Lets have a look: > > Operating system > From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. > > In computing, an operating system (OS) is the system software > [...] > > ... well ... > > System software > From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. > > System software is a generic term referring to any computer > software whose purpose is to help run the computer system. > > ... ok, so it's "computer software", now, what's that? > > Computer software > From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. > > Computer software (or simply software) refers to one or more > computer programs held in the storage of a computer for some > purpose. > > ... and here we go, it's a "computer program" (what a surprise) -- > your second link. :) According to your reference interpreting skills, GNU/Linux would count as just "a computer program", too. So we are back at square one. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum