On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 9:59 AM, ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 9:56 AM, John Floren <john@jfloren.net> wrote:
>
> > I do not think it is acceptable to have to fork repeatedly merely to
> > efficiently read a file. Also, as far as I can tell, exactly one
> > program (fcp) does that.
> >
> > Can a single process have multiple outstanding requests? My
> > investigations indicated not, but then again I may have mis-read
> > things.
>
> So, John, you don't think it's reasonable to rewrite every program a
> la fcp? How unreasonable of you :-)
>
> ron
>
> "Perhaps if we built a large wooden badger..."