Date: Fri, 28 Jul 1995 13:16:30 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Robert Withrow <witr@rwwa.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Message-ID: <8624.806962590@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 28 Jul 1995 08:23:25 EDT." <199507281223.IAA06946@spooky.rwwa.com>
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> > 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? You misunderstood me. I was raising the issue of ioctl() as one argument (there are more) about how mapping all your devices and files through a filesystem model was WRONG. And yes, I think the /proc filesystem is an abortion too. Jordan
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