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* Re: recvfrom + MSG_PEEK = broken?
       [not found]     ` <4BA85E92.5080700@cwilson.fastmail.fm>
@ 2010-03-23  7:35       ` Dave Korn
  2010-03-23 15:59         ` Christopher Faylor
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Dave Korn @ 2010-03-23  7:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: give the devil his due

On 23/03/2010 06:24, Charles Wilson wrote:
> 
> Err...sure. "I want to design my networking stack in such a way that it
> can't support a specific POSIX call, so I'll blame POSIX"
> 
> That's not "reasonable" -- that's just arrogance.  AKA Microsoft.

  To be fair to them though, what they lack in modesty, they make up for in
incompetence(*).

    cheers,
      DaveK
-- 
(*) - And in spades.

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* Re: recvfrom + MSG_PEEK = broken?
  2010-03-23  7:35       ` recvfrom + MSG_PEEK = broken? Dave Korn
@ 2010-03-23 15:59         ` Christopher Faylor
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Christopher Faylor @ 2010-03-23 15:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: cygwin-talk

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 07:53:54AM +0000, Dave Korn wrote:
>On 23/03/2010 06:24, Charles Wilson wrote:
>> 
>> Err...sure. "I want to design my networking stack in such a way that it
>> can't support a specific POSIX call, so I'll blame POSIX"
>> 
>> That's not "reasonable" -- that's just arrogance.  AKA Microsoft.
>
>  To be fair to them though, what they lack in modesty, they make up for in
>incompetence(*).

For Microsoft incompetence == innovation.

cgf

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