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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.