From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com
Cc: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Any significant gotchas?
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 10:55:17 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200007121455.KAA01408@egyptian-gods.mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 12 Jul 2000 10:43:22 EDT." <200007121443.KAA25866@cse.psu.edu>
> Maybe Plan 9 can do this cleaner, maybe not, the trick is it is a
> very mutable system that isn't UNIX and offers you the opportunity
> to look at things in a different way.
Just to relay one such idea, I'm told Solaris has introduced a
/dev/poll in recent versions. (Though it doesn't happen to be in
Solaris 7, the most recent version I have access to at the moment.)
The idea seems fairly straightforward and should scale quite well.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-07-12 14:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-07-12 14:43 jmk
2000-07-12 14:55 ` Greg Hudson [this message]
2000-07-14 9:20 ` Wesley Felter
2000-07-14 14:55 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2000-07-12 16:36 ` John S. Dyson
[not found] <10007111441.ZM757223@marvin>
2000-07-12 13:39 ` Stephen C. Harris
[not found] <sharris@sch1.NCTR.FDA.GOV>
2000-07-11 21:10 ` Stephen C. Harris
2000-07-11 21:20 ` Scott Schwartz
2000-07-12 9:31 ` Jason Ozolins
2000-07-12 12:08 ` John S. Dyson
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