Date: Fri, 28 Jul 1995 13:17:49 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Peter da Silva <peter@bonkers.taronga.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <8635.806962669@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 28 Jul 1995 07:12:47 CDT." <199507281212.HAA27841@bonkers.taronga.com>
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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. So how do you do "out of band" operations, like telling a tape drive to skip forward to the next mark? Jordan
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