>>>>> "Jan" == Jan Harkes <jaharkes_at_cs.cmu.edu> writes:

    Jan> Which is ofcourse a big pain, breaking compatibility for both
    Jan> kernel modules and userspace applications. And consider that
    Jan> most applications don't even bother to check the return value
    Jan> of close(2).

XEmacs does, religiously.  I went on a crusade after such a bug last
night.

Please don't use buggy/careless applications as a reason not to
change.

The other reasons you give are sufficient reasons to wait.

-- 
University of Tsukuba                Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN
Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences       Tel/fax: +81 (298) 53-5091
_________________  _________________  _________________  _________________
What are those straight lines for?  "XEmacs rules."