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From: Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Fork: useless and painful?
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In-Reply-To: <slrnbgum94.738.kodis@tux.gsfc.nasa.gov>; from John Kodis on Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 08:51:34AM +0000
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 15:24:02 +0200
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On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 08:51:34AM +0000, John Kodis wrote:
>
> In article <85139cb0363c3b2b1f14746d68b9ff59@plan9.bell-labs.com>,
> David Presotto wrote:
>
> >  Not to mention the fact that you have to send/receive on sockets
> >  and read/write on everything else so that an app has to check
> >  the type of any handles it is passed so that it can use the
> >  right calls.
>
> Nor to mention the fact that you have to pclose on process streams and
> fclose on everything else so that an app has to check the type of any
> streams it is passed so that it can use the right calls.

I thought the object oriented paradigm would at least be able to hide
that from the programmer.  Weird...

++L