From: Pierre DAVID <pdagog@gmail.com>
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Unix APIs: elegant or not?
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2018 08:42:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181101074231.GA4844@vagabond> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.1811010827590.78183@aneurin.horsfall.org>
On Thu, Nov 01, 2018 at 08:31:25AM +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote:
>On Wed, 31 Oct 2018, Paul Winalski wrote:
>
>>I've always thought that the UNIX file primitives very elegantly
>>adhere to this principle. [...]
>
>Until Berkeley introduced sockets, which has the worst API that I've
>ever seen in Unix-land...
>
Do you *really* think that IPC System V primitives are better than
sockets?
Pierre
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-01 8:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-10-31 4:38 Warren Toomey
2018-10-31 15:47 ` Paul Winalski
2018-10-31 17:22 ` Clem Cole
2018-10-31 19:33 ` Lawrence Stewart
2018-10-31 20:57 ` G. Branden Robinson
2018-10-31 21:31 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-11-01 7:42 ` Pierre DAVID [this message]
2018-11-01 10:20 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-11-01 12:57 ` Clem Cole
2018-11-01 14:19 ` ron minnich
2018-11-01 14:41 ` Clem Cole
2018-11-01 16:43 ` Warner Losh
2018-11-01 16:48 ` ron minnich
2018-11-01 16:56 ` Warner Losh
2018-11-02 5:24 ` Bakul Shah
2018-11-04 10:53 ` Chris Hanson
2018-11-04 15:34 ` ron minnich
2018-11-04 17:06 ` Warner Losh
2018-11-04 20:00 ` ron minnich
2018-11-04 18:52 ` Bakul Shah
2018-11-04 10:49 ` Chris Hanson
2018-11-04 12:28 ` arnold
2018-11-04 21:34 ` Chris Hanson
2018-11-05 14:11 ` Donald ODona
2018-11-04 13:35 ` Warner Losh
2018-11-04 19:47 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-11-01 15:39 Noel Chiappa
2018-11-04 22:29 Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-11-04 22:37 Noel Chiappa
2018-11-05 4:04 ` Dave Horsfall
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