From: agrier@poofygoof.com (Aaron J. Grier)
Subject: [TUHS] portal daemon (was Re: networking on unix before uucp)
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2014 12:15:08 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140902191508.GJ22809@arwen.poofy.goof.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140822155701.GB19006@mercury.ccil.org>
On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 11:57:01AM -0400, John Cowan wrote:
> # filedes = open( "/dev/net/harv",2 );
> # if( filedes < 0 )
> # printf(" harvard is dead");
> # else
> # while( (nbytes=read(filedes,buf,80)) > 0 )
> # write( 0,buf,nbytes );
>
> If only this code still worked on modern Unixes! The socket API is
> fine, but there really was no need to break good old open, at least
> for client-side operations. Plan 9 got it right here, as usual.
was this the impetus behind mount_portal in 4.4BSD? It's still
available in NetBSD, although I've never played with it myself.
--
Aaron J. Grier | "Not your ordinary poofy goof." | agrier at poofygoof.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-02 19:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-22 3:42 [TUHS] networking on unix before uucp Mark Longridge
2014-08-22 15:09 ` Mary Ann Horton
2014-08-22 22:12 ` Cory Smelosky
2014-08-24 22:46 ` Clem Cole
2014-08-24 23:00 ` Clem Cole
2014-08-24 23:07 ` A. P. Garcia
2014-08-24 23:43 ` Clem Cole
2014-08-25 14:21 ` Ronald Natalie
2014-08-26 16:36 ` Jeremy C. Reed
2014-08-26 23:20 ` Clem Cole
2014-08-22 15:18 ` Dan Cross
2014-08-22 15:20 ` Dan Cross
2014-08-22 15:57 ` John Cowan
2014-08-22 16:06 ` Ronald Natalie
2014-08-22 18:11 ` Dave Horsfall
2014-08-22 17:51 ` Larry McVoy
2014-08-22 19:24 ` John Cowan
2014-08-22 20:37 ` Dave Horsfall
2014-08-22 20:16 ` Larry McVoy
[not found] ` <alpine.BSF.2.00.1408230659490.42071@aneurin.horsfall.org>
2014-08-23 2:30 ` Larry McVoy
2014-08-22 19:32 ` John Cowan
2014-09-02 19:15 ` Aaron J. Grier [this message]
2014-09-02 19:57 ` [TUHS] portal daemon (was Re: networking on unix before uucp) Clem Cole
2014-09-02 20:06 ` Erik E. Fair
2014-08-22 18:01 ` [TUHS] networking on unix before uucp Dave Horsfall
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