Re: rawops.c
"Matt W. Benjamin" <[email protected]> Mon, 24 Aug 2009 17:48:27 -0400 (EDT)
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Hi, Perhaps Mickey might have been (or, suppose I had asked the question) asking about these routines specifically. Depending on the code, you might have easily have written, "It's obsolete. Feel free to send a changeset removing it."), no? Or elaborated on why it may become useful in the future. Matt ----- "Jeffrey Altman" <[email protected]> wrote: > Matt W. Benjamin wrote: > > I wonder if the question may have been asked in the code-cleanup > spirit, as with many of Simon's recent (non-Windows) changes. > > > > Matt > > It may very well have been. My point is still valid. There is lots > of > code in the source tree that is not currently being used but may be > in > the future. Some of it is built. Some of it is not. Much of that > code is maintained in the source tree to ensure that it won't bit rot > to the point that it will not be usable in the future. > > Examples outside the Windows tree are pthreaded ubik, rx adaptive > windows, rx adaptive pmtu discovery, ... > > Jeffrey Altman > > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenAFS-Win32-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-win32-devel -- Matt Benjamin The Linux Box 206 South Fifth Ave. Suite 150 Ann Arbor, MI 48104 http://linuxbox.com tel. 734-761-4689 fax. 734-769-8938 cel. 734-216-5309