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From: Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.algebra.com>
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Subject: buffering in user space (was Heads up: block devices to disappear!)
In-Reply-To: <199806242137.OAA17628@usr04.primenet.com> from "Terry Lambert" at "Jun 24, 98 09:37:52 pm"
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Terry Lambert once stated:

=> Just wondering, can't one do all the buffering one needs in user-space?
=> With, say, buffer or team?
=
=I agree; buffering should be done in user programs.
=
=Death to stdio!

	mi@rtfm:/tmp (558) nm /usr/lib/libc.so.3.1 | grep putchar
	00009c80 T _putchar

To the best of my knowledge, stdio is part of libc and thus lives
in user-space already. Or is this because ANSI comittee is against
implementing SMB servers in user space?

I may very well be wrong, but stdio seems like a poor example.

=After all, all it is is a bunch more code to write in very application,
=instead of once, in the kernel.

Not in every application, in one library. If that library does not exist
already (I think, it does and is called -lc)...

	-mi

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