Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 15:04:05 -0500 (CDT) From: Richard Neswold <neswold@aduxb.fnal.gov> To: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@plutotech.com> Cc: FreeBSD-Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: async socket stuff Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95.970527145811.12810A-100000@aduxb.fnal.gov> In-Reply-To: <199705271914.NAA04997@pluto.plutotech.com>
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On Tue, 27 May 1997, Justin T. Gibbs wrote: > >btw, NT is probably the WORST place to look for inspiration. just look > >at their TCP sequence generation algorithm. > > It is up to the farmer to separate the wheat from the chaff. Some of the > programing models in NT are extremely useful. For example, the fact that > almost every object in the system (FDs, sockets, threads, processes, > events, mutexes, critical sections) comes in the form of a handle you can > shove in an array with other handle types and wait on is something I think > would be very usefull to have in FreeBSD. You mean like sockets, files and pipes being represented by "file" descriptors? Yep. Unix has been using that model for years. Rich ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Richard Neswold, Accelerator Div./Controls Dept | neswold@fnal.gov Fermilab, PO Box 500, MS 347, Batavia, IL 60510 | voice (630) 840-3454 'finger neswold@aduxb.fnal.gov' for PGP key | fax (630) 840-3093
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