In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on
03/21/2008
at 05:20 PM, Kirk Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>This distinction has no analog in modern operating
>systems, where interfaces are expressed *entirely* by APIs and service
>routines, and not by skipping through PSA->ASCB->etc.etc.
That's certainly the preference in *ix systems, but it's not always what
happens. Take tool for manipulating file systems. Or look at standard
services routines that take structure arguments, typically via pointers.
--
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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