Date: Fri, 28 Jul 1995 23:51:15 -0500 (CDT) From: Peter da Silva <peter@bonkers.taronga.com> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: peter@taronga.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What's in a name Message-ID: <199507290451.XAA17741@bonkers.taronga.com> In-Reply-To: <936.806984854@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jul 28, 95 07:27:34 pm
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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. :-(
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