From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 27 13:21:51 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id NAA27948 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 27 Jan 1995 13:21:51 -0800 Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id NAA27942 for ; Fri, 27 Jan 1995 13:21:46 -0800 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA00468; Fri, 27 Jan 95 14:15:42 MST From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9501272115.AA00468@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: Am I dreaming? To: jkh@FreeBSD.org (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Fri, 27 Jan 95 14:15:41 MST Cc: wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu, hackers@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: <3196.791240166@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jan 27, 95 12:56:06 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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.