Date: Fri, 28 Jul 1995 08:24:22 -0600 From: aflundi@sandia.gov (Alan F Lundin) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Lessons learned from Plan9 Message-ID: <199507281424.IAA22384@sargon.mdl.sandia.gov> In-Reply-To: Robert Withrow <witr@rwwa.com> "" (Jul 28, 8:23am)
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On Jul 28, 8:23am, Robert Withrow wrote: > > > 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).. > > You are mistaken. Everthing is *not* an ioctl. It instead resembles > something like the proc filesystem. Do you think *that* is an > abortion? I have to agree with Peter and Robert here. It seems to me to be awfully cool to do # echo format > /dev/sd0/crtl to format a disk (and the disk can even be remote)! --alan
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