At 05:37 AM 9/27/00 +, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote:
Perl should adopt scheme-like symbols, both at the language level
and at the internals level.
The explanation of this isn't that clear for me. (I have no scheme
experience at all)
It sounds like a sort of dynamically-created version of C's
At 02:25 PM 9/25/00 +0100, David Mitchell wrote:
Here are a few comments on RFC35 (base format for perl variables).
[ NB - I've only just joined this list, and although I've rummaged
through the archives, I may have missed bits which make my comments
obsolete/absurd etc... :-) ]
Revisiting the
At 11:53 PM 9/26/00 -0400, Uri Guttman wrote:
now what bothers me is that all those calls are in section 3 and are no
section 2 system calls. maybe it is faked with threads but i haven't
found any support for that notion. if so, i wonder if we can actually
use it and not collide with perl
On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 02:40:27AM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
I don't much care how its faked (if it is) as long as it works.
Well, given that line disciplines means we have to write our own IO subsystem,
can't we fake it ourselves?
--
"They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton,
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Uri Guttman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
now what bothers me is that all those calls are in section 3 and are no
section 2 system calls. maybe it is faked with threads but i haven't
found any support for that notion. if so, i wonder if we can actually
use it
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Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't much care how its faked (if it is) as long as it
works. Might not be as efficient as full kernel support for async
I/O, but it'll do. At least there's some overlap. (You can get
better device request ordering
"TH" == Tom Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
TH I can't see any reference to threads in the Solaris manual pages
TH either. Certainly Unixware does:
TH I thought that using threads was the standard SVR4 implementation
TH but maybe Solaris has moved away from that.
well, my question
On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 04:24:05AM -0400, Uri Guttman wrote:
well, my question then is how does solaris do it? it can't be done with
user level libs alone. what system calls does it use? undocumented ones
perhaps with the libs as the public api?
i finally found how solaris does its AIO under
At 08:31 AM 9/27/00 +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 02:40:27AM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
I don't much care how its faked (if it is) as long as it works.
Well, given that line disciplines means we have to write our own IO
subsystem, can't we fake it ourselves?
If we want,
On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Dan Sugalski wrote:
At 05:37 AM 9/27/00 +, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote:
Perl should adopt scheme-like symbols, both at the language level
and at the internals level.
The explanation of this isn't that clear for me. (I have no scheme
experience at all)
It
On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 03:07:19PM -0400, Ken Fox wrote:
Dan was right to think of this as a C enum equivalent. The only real
differences being that you don't have a chance to define the integer
mapping and that the printable identity of the symbol is remembered by
the run-time.
I don't yet
"RA" == Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
RA Michael Maraist [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I suggested this a while ago, and the response was that automatically
writing files is a security risk. You should extend your RFC to
describe a caching directory or configuration.
RA This will be
Chaim Frenkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
"RA" == Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
RA This will be completely impossible to implement in some installation
RA environments, such as AFS or read-only remote NFS mounts. I really
RA don't like software that tries to play dynamic compilation
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