Re: rawops.c

"Matt W. Benjamin" <[email protected]> Mon, 24 Aug 2009 17:48:27 -0400 (EDT)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.file-systems.openafs.devel.win32
Message-ID <527456631.2091251150507686.JavaMail.root@thunderbeast.private.linuxbox.com>
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
> 
> 
> 
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