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 20:41:52 +0200 Message-ID: <85oe8do87j.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> <85mznyq7ir.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <20050804142546.GD4396@kenny.sha-bang.local> <85oe8dpy1u.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1123182706 17285 80.91.229.2 (4 Aug 2005 19:11:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 19:11:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 04 21:11:37 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E0l7K-00082o-V2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2005 21:10:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E0lA9-00054S-Gz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2005 15:13:53 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E0l77-0003xW-9U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2005 15:10:45 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E0l76-0003xE-BD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2005 15:10:44 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E0l4J-0002qH-A1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2005 15:07:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1E0ksa-0000y4-OU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2005 14:55:44 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1E0kdi-00030q-IG; Thu, 04 Aug 2005 14:40:31 -0400 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 3A6671D46074; Thu, 4 Aug 2005 20:41:53 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Juanma Barranquero In-Reply-To: (Juanma Barranquero's message of "Thu, 4 Aug 2005 20:11:06 +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:41501 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:41501 Juanma Barranquero writes: > On 8/4/05, David Kastrup wrote: >> Sascha Wilde writes: > >> > Yes, that is exactly my point, I think Richard is right: >> > Linux is just a program "in the usual sense". >> >> But I was talking about GNU/Linux. It seems you don't even get the >> difference we are talking about. > > [jumping in] > > Perhaps in a parallel universe you were talking about GNU/Linux. In > this universe, you said: > >> Linux is not really a program in the usual sense. > > Richard retorted: > >> It is a program, in the usual sense of the word. >> You must have some unusual sense of the word in mind. > > And you countered: > >> Looks more like a collection of services to me, somewhat like a >> library. > > So definitely you were talking (or at least, you were *writing*) > about Linux, not GNU/Linux. That definitely was what the original argument was about. But in my reply to Sascha I pointed out to him that his way of applying the term "a program" to Linux would fit GNU/Linux quite as well. Which did not really serve to render the view he claimed to support more plausible. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum