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Subject: Re: [9fans] new compilers
From: Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net>
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 18:58:28 +0100
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> ioctl(fd, SETVOLUME, &vol); is more comfortable.

of course.  then we can fuss trying to have the same value for SETVOLUME on each system
in a distributed set and re-learn all that The Newcastle Connection and RFS painfully discovered
about that (but Linux has yet to learn); the interface requires passing a reference to vol (just to pass its value,
so it can't be an expression, and also losing its type in the process because ioctl takes void*);
and every language needs to set up its own `binding' for all those operations and values; and ...