Re: Some very thought-provoking ideas about OS architecture.

Chip Salzenberg (chip@perlsupport.com)
Tue, 22 Jun 1999 18:03:21 -0400

According to Linus Torvalds:
> int control(int fd, unsigned int code,
> void *in, int in_size, void *out, int out_size)

I like it! Sign me up for one of those, please.

> And notice how it's not getting to be really pretty whatever you do: even
> if ioctl() and friends had a nicer interface, they'd still be just a ugly
> sideband channel to whatever the fd is connected to.

It's an inevitable consequence of presenting file data without
structure, IMO.

-- 
Chip Salzenberg      - a.k.a. -      <chip@perlsupport.com>
      "When do you work?"   "Whenever I'm not busy."


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