From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jun 22 14:15:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk (probity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C32737B401 for ; Fri, 22 Jun 2001 14:15:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97] ident=root) by probity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #7) id 15DYGo-000KTL-00 for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Fri, 22 Jun 2001 22:15:14 +0100 Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f5MLFDr64794 for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Fri, 22 Jun 2001 22:15:13 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jcm) Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 22:14:53 +0100 From: j mckitrick To: Terry Lambert Subject: Re: most complex code in BSD? Message-ID: <20010622221453.B64495@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <200106222110.OAA28427@usr06.primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <200106222110.OAA28427@usr06.primenet.com>; from tlambert@primenet.com on Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 09:10:03PM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org | The VFS code is trivial, if you just understand call-by-descriptor, could you explain what call-by-descriptor is? | Anything with "perl" code in it: it's a write-only programming | language, useful only for throw-away code. Guess i should cancel my order for the Camel book from O'Reilly ;-) Jonathon -- Microsoft complaining about the source license used by Linux is like the event horizon calling the kettle black. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message