> "Yes, some old-timers could argue that original UNIX didn't have sockets,
> and that the BSD interface is ugly and an abomination and that it _should_
> have been a namespace thing, but that argument falls flat on its face when
> you realize that the "pipe()" system call _was_ in original UNIX, and has
> all the same issues."
appeal to the authority of the unix authors as a defense of sockets?
surely someone has missed a bit.
or another way, since the original was broken, we must not work correctly?
i'm tempted to draw one of those ascii slashdot memes
unix →
\o/
|
/\
woosh!
- erik
