Nathan Hand <nathanh@chirp.com.au> wrote:
> Now if UNIX had been designed with the philosophy "Everything is
> a socket"... I think an OS like that would be quite amazing.
Hmmm... I think I might rant on about that... Especially
if {set,get}socketopt() used string ids instead of numerical
IDs (backwards compatable via #defines, of course), you might
be onto something....
> The cruft works. The best you can hope for is cleaner cruft. The
> cruft removal jihads almost always end in tears.
[I'm starting to get that feeling from all the replies
I've been getting... but hey, I did say it was a late-night
rant after all...]
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