Re: file access library

[s369625@student.uq.edu.au]

On Thu, 24 Sep 1998, Christian Reiniger wrote:
>s369625@student.uq.edu.au wrote:
>
>>>might >have been swallowed (raka's three year long email saga is still not
>>>>over.  Can anyone tell me what the OUTBOX folder is exactly an how
>
>I have a working smail/fetchmail setup here, perhaps I can help you...
Actually I finally managed to get the whole system working (except pine in
unsuable).  It's just that I am currently using my MTA queue as an OUTBOX
so I can answer mail offline (hence my recently slow replies).

 >
>>a reason.  The bottom line is that decisions about what to keep cached and
>>what not to keep cached are best made by the kernel.
>
>Well, ok. But Linux is the only OS I'd trust to handle this correctly.
>(Okok, I admit my arguments get worse and worse - it's just for hiding that
>I'm totally incompetent in system-level stuff ;)
RE OS'es:  Well I would trust the other unices too.  But you are right, I
don't trust '95 (NT _might_ be OK).  If we design the interface properly
we can implement the windows version any way we like. 


 > >I'll bail out here and concentrate on the general design of the
system. vc
Hmm, I don't know about system level stuff either.  I assume SOMEONE
on the list does and they should speak up.