From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: crossd@gmail.com (Dan Cross) Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2017 23:51:04 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] Were all of you.. Hippies? In-Reply-To: <20170326033259.E473018C097@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> References: <20170326033259.E473018C097@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> Message-ID: On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 11:32 PM, Noel Chiappa wrote: > > From: Andrew Warkentin > > > especially with one that preserves message boundaries > > Records in the file-system! How very Unix-like! > No. Records implemented at a layer above that of the bare system calls (or, in the case of datagram-oriented protocols, coordinated between two layers sandwiching read()/write()). That seems very Unix-like to me: consider ndbm, Berkeley DB, etc. The point is that the interface as exposed by the kernel doesn't care. - Dan C. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: