In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 10/21/2006
at 11:43 AM, Charles Mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Just TWO things would make life so much simpler:
>1. A universal hardware and OS stack. Then all the discussions about
>reentrance go away.
No. It would slightly simplify storage management but would not
eliminate the need for serialization.
>2. Get the I/O control blocks out of the user's space -- go instead
>to a "handle" type approach where the gory details of the I/O
>control blocks were not the application developer's problem. And
>bingo, the 24-bit DCB problem disappears.
I don't see the need for that, and it would complicate interfaces.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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