One of the extra irritations of many single instance applications is that they also are what I will call'single context applications', applications where you can only bedoing one thing at a time. I want applications like my feed reader or my mail reader to behave more like abrowser, letting me rip off windows so that I can skip around withouthaving to lose the old context.

For example, consider a mail reader. If I'm working my way throughsorting and cross-checking older mail and new

One of my serious irritations with ZFS is how various ZFS commands (orat least sub-commands of zpool ) will stall badly if it can't talk tosome of the underlying disk devices. This is especially apparent whenyou're using iSCSI; for example, I accidentally booted a system with theiSCSI cable plugged into the wrong port, and once the system had booted zpool list simply hung.

(Worse, it hung uninterruptibly; I could not stop it with ^C, use jobcontrol to background