Here's something that I want: I want a version control system (ideally adistributed one) that can preserve file timestamps. I'm looking for sucha weird feature because I happen to have created something that I want to put under version control where (some of the) filetimestamps are significant and need to be preserved.

(This is yet another hazard of using files as entries , albeit in a slightly different form.)

This is an uncommon feature in version control systems at the best oftimes

Wietse Venema's tcpwrappers is mostly used forcontrolling access to services run from inetd or your local equivalent,where you are not expecting high performance or high load. However, itcan be built as a library that you link your daemon against, and somedaemons are.

(At least on Linux, both OpenSSH and the portmapper are built thisway.)

It turns out that there is a small drawback to using tcpwrappers thisway in some sorts of high-performance applications, specifically inapplication where you expect a

There are two possible uses for Microsoft's attempt to make OOXML into an internationalstandard: documenting Microsoft Office's file formats so that thirdparties can more easily write programs that deal with them, and lettingMicrosoft claim with a relatively straight face that Microsoft Officeuses a standardized file format instead of a proprietary one.

As lots of people have pointed out at great length, examination of thedraft OOXML specification shows that it does not actually documentthe Microsoft Office document formats in enough detail for anyone to useit as