Date: Fri, 27 Jan 95 14:15:41 MST From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) To: jkh@FreeBSD.org (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu, hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Am I dreaming? Message-ID: <9501272115.AA00468@cs.weber.edu> In-Reply-To: <3196.791240166@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jan 27, 95 12:56:06 pm
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> However, I do feel compelled to note that the inability to do this kind > of thing easily only underscores the abominable evil that is the whole > UNIX filesystem paradigm (as if ioctl() wasn't enough to already convince > us of this! :-). File system ioctl()'s are beauty incarnate. It's the open/close/read/write/opendir/readdir/closedir/especially-telldir crap that ought to go. Well, OK, keep open and close to get handles you can ioctl() to, but that's it! Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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