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Date:      Fri, 28 Jul 1995 07:12:47 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Peter da Silva <peter@bonkers.taronga.com>
To:        jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: your mail
Message-ID:  <199507281212.HAA27841@bonkers.taronga.com>
In-Reply-To: <5387.806903280@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jul 27, 95 08:48:00 pm

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> > I disagree. Oh, not in the user interface model, but in the file system
> > and process model. It takes the UNIX "everything is a file" a logical
> > evolutionary step forward.

> Oh great.  One of UNIX's worst abortions, taken to extremes (can you
> say "ioctl() is a bogus ``API'' for controlling behavior?"  I thought
> so)..

Plan 9 doesn't have IOCTL at all. Just about everything is done with open,
close, read, and write.



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