Re: [MiNT] cookies, was: ext2fs

[Frank Naumann <fnaumann@prinz-atm.CS.Uni-Magdeburg.De>]

Hi Petr!

> > It's a very bad design in general to use the Cookie Jar for Pointers or 
> > Entry Points to critical system data and/or system routines.
> 
> DATE/TIME cookies were designed long time ago and not by me. 

And?

> started using them in Clocky because it's a very clean, quick and elegant
> way how to get the system time in singleTOS ;-)

Quick - yes, elegant - maybe, clean - definitly not!


Tschuess
   ...Frank

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