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From: "David Leimbach" <leimy2k@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] kernel development: how not to
Date: Fri,  5 May 2006 08:19:13 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3e1162e60605050819g796711aeo345776dd940f3e7f@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060505151218.5560223C90F@dexter-peak.quanstro.net>

Is the the vmslice that Linus told BSD people they were a bunch of
retards for not having?



On 5/5/06, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
> the linux guys decided to implement system calls
> "splice" and "tee".  splice concatinates the pages from
> two files -- the vm equivalent of "cat a b".  tee
> is the vm equivalent of its namesake.
>
>         http://lwn.net/Articles/181169/#Comments
>
> the best part is the conclusion -- "needs a bit more work".
> ha!
>
> - erik
>


  reply	other threads:[~2006-05-05 15:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-05 15:12 erik quanstrom
2006-05-05 15:19 ` David Leimbach [this message]
2006-05-05 15:41 erik quanstrom
2006-05-08 15:44 ` Dave Lukes
2006-05-08 19:41 erik quanstrom

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