After takin' a swig o' grog, Roy Schestowitz belched out
this bit o' wisdom:
> Why writing a Windows compatible file server is (still) hard
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>| I went into one of my colleague's office and kicked the hell out of one of
>| the much loved Google beanbags, all the while screaming obscenities into the
>| air for a good five minutes. He looked on with bemused amusement. I finally
>| calmed down enough to explain the problem. One packet being returned at the
>| wrong time. One single mis-timed packet caused a ripple effect in the Windows
>| client file system software that was seen all the way up in the complex user
>| interface of only that particular version of Excel, when interacting with
>| the ???Offline Files??? feature, only on Windows Vista.
>|
>| The remaining task was to add a regression test into our test suite, so that
>| this specific bug is tested for before we release any new versions of Samba.
>| The code isn't done until it's properly tested. But at least the user is now
>| happy.
>|
>| Interoperability with Windows is hard. But somebody has to do it. And if
>| you're going to do something, you might as well try and do it well (and try
>| and have some fun at the same time) :-) .
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>
> http://tuxdeluxe.org/node/298
According to "Hadron", Jeremy Allison would be a "freetard", because he
spends all day working on Windows.
:-D
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