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Subject: Re: What's in a name
To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
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> There are a number of "global objects" hanging around your modern UN*X
> system that really don't want to be files and need to be substantially
> twisted into weird shapes in order to get them to fit.

Only because the interfaces have never been really cleanly designed. IOCTL
is a perfect example of how the interface has been more or less abandoned.
Those sorts of rough edges should have long since been dealt with.

In Plan 9 they have been, at the cost of neglecting most of the past ten
years worth of user interface design. :-(