site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com Dkim-signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=KRctMRcGSEsFmoEbhaQJMGX+JL1hsXXRpVf8mjTPcYBLbS9s4W5d/CXTHLKqXsVtALS/FzfkFrUSWikRdjHpuLtHMWks3vXY/af54wMEoHIOSj8uRHzorlDum0r/0NGLHja5gwhZ5QQNQCHWchXLIok3Oo2aNK9VlqXs1oXRtxY= Domainkey-signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=NsZJRbaDtosEAw6go3o9wakXbcC14Ny45Q9WszH/HLWrLFcgtroHRggO4LzUVOk/WErrkgmcpEtFGaRlNlkKQWx+GRnQ3evz9xD1oD1VTl4rX9ib1UnFJ2rZtj7YIG0PysVhXGaQfkkbiXSu8sQz7QYyXcuhKWepB9kWyIR9FTI= On 25/08/07, Terry Lambert <tlambert@apple.com> wrote:

The point of forcing you to write wrappers around standard tools instead of doing what the tool does is to ensure you that when the system is updated, you are guaranteed that the tools are updated at the same time that the kernel and other system components are updated, so your code will continue working, even if we change the system interface used by the tool.

However, I'm fairly sure you don't provide any guarantees that the arguments or output of the tool will remain the same across releases, so surely this is just moving the fragility to a different layer? -- Finlay _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.appl... This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com