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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

  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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