Re: New file system IDs and others.

[Katherine L Ellis <kellis@primenet.com>]

Well I have been reading a lot lately here. And I don't quite agree
with many people comments, such as: "Like in magic."
Like if it EVEN correctly worked. 
Shared lib? like magic? why would MiNT need the magic one?
compatibility reason? We haveto stay clear, and know what we want, do
we want magic compatibility with their own way of doing? or more
likely to be closest to unix shared lib? Are the unix shared lib even
thinkable on atari? if yes, why did magic adopt their own? What is
stoping us to use more standard way of doing?

Handle Background DMA like in magic? "magic does it already blah blah
with Hddriver blah" , Does it even work in the so perfect Magic OS? 
OS of the excellence. I have read and did try myslef. That ain't
working well at all. Many / most of the people have this option
disabled as it is way too slow.

I have read also that Magic AES didn't change the ob flags?( the way
they look). That's a little bit wrong. Under Magic it doesn't look the
same at all. What do I do? provide extra RSC for magic user? or change
the look from within my code that IF magic detected?

Why is pexec reacting differently from magic to mint? what is the
purpose? won't that create compatibility problem? YES it will, it has.

I mean come on, shouldn't we try to direct MiNT kernal toward
something a little bit more robust? following posix threads for 
example, EVEN if it has to be NOT compatible with magic. I don't care
about magic. 
Ok, Made MiNTsetter to support Dcntl() instead of Sssytem, 1) coz it
is better, more logical etc, 2) it will be magic compatible. I wonder
why It even needs to be magic compatible. Magic application are way to
tight up with magic kernal that just 1 call won't make it compatible
anyway.
Example? run vfatconf.prg of magic under newer mint kernal, It
looks/writes whatever into the magx.inf file. Or will do some special
Magic AES call.
Magic can be good? ok prove it to me. coz I have 5.1x and it is really
not convincing at all. Please help me. This is driving me nuts. Why
Magic if it doesn't bring anything good? am I missing something
obvious?



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