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From: Paul Ruizendaal <pnr@planet.nl>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: V8 4BSD or 32V Based?  (was: Unix V8 Chaosnet, any 	takers?)
Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2022 21:27:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FE61203-9EDB-4984-B062-00D62215C248@planet.nl> (raw)


> Regarding select, I recall that Dennis implemented it and passed it to
> Berkeley*, but maybe not. He certainly had a hand in its design; I
> distinctly remember talking to him about it after one of his trips out
> west.

That is an interesting comment. DMR was on the steering committee for what would become 4.2BSD.

I once spoke with Kirk McKusick about the origins of the sockets API and I think he told me that there was a lot of debate in the committee whether descriptor readiness API should be stateful (like Haverty’s await() https://www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=BBN-V6/ken/awaitr.c ) or stateless (like select). According to Sam Leffler (who I think added select() to 4.1c BSD) the select system call was somewhat modelled after the ADA select statement. 

I am speculating now, but I would not be surprised if dmr favoured the stateless design and contributed to its design.

Paul


             reply	other threads:[~2022-07-16 19:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-07-16 19:27 Paul Ruizendaal [this message]
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2022-07-15 17:15 [TUHS] " segaloco via TUHS
2022-07-15 17:50 ` [TUHS] " Warner Losh
2022-07-15 18:41   ` segaloco via TUHS
2022-07-16  9:31 ` Paul Ruizendaal
2022-07-16 10:31   ` Rob Pike

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