On Thu, 01 Nov 2001 00:20:30 GMT, dawat_private (David Wagner) said: > In other words, I would argue that prescriptive conditions are useful > to have commented, but the descriptive observations can be left to IBM. > (I speculate that few -- if any -- hooks have prescriptive preconditions.) IBM has long been reknowned for documenting and commenting things in excruciating detail. It may sometimes be hard to find stuff, or understand what they meant, but lack of detail is rarely a problem there. It would probably be a *very* good idea if somebody went back through afterwards, and see if what IBM's crew documented as the actual calling conditions matches what we thought it should be. If we thought there was a "must have lock L to call this" requirement, and IBM says "can be called with or without L", we have a problem. ;) (To the IBM crew: Yes, we *DO* appreciate the usually thankless job ;) /Valdis
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