On 29/11/2005, at 6:34 AM, Tobias Oberstein wrote:
I know .. not i.e. in POSIX. Adding new entry points into the
kernel is in _general_ bad - I agree-, but does that mean it has to
be fixed until the end of planet earth?
On 29/11/2005, at 10:34 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't see why the egg-laying, milk-giving woolly UNIX syscall pig
that is ioctl() couldn't be genetically engineered to concatenate
files as well ...
No, not ioctl(), fcntl()! You guys just don't understand the clear
distinction
between the two interfaces :-)
Hey, settle down, guys. Pretty soon you'll be discussing heretical
ideas like allowing insertion of data into the middle of a file!
I must say that in general, I'm sympathetic to Thomas' sentiment that
it wouldn't be a bad thing to consider some additional/alternative
file access semantics sometime between now and the heat death of the
universe.
Boyd
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