On 9/1/07, Uriel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> With this way of thinking we will never catch up with lunix's 400
> syscalls (and counting, not to mention the ioctls)!

We're partly there in spirit; what fraction of the 4e kernel's system
calls are there for backwards compatibility?  ;)

Back on topic, I wasn't proposing a readdir() syscall but pointing out
that Douglas's suggestion would not in fact be painless or transparent
under Plan 9.

--Joel

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