From: George Michaelson <ggm@algebras.org>
To: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Usenix: no official Unix 50th celebration, apparently
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2018 09:37:51 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKr6gn0jD8CzQDDrvsoztRpKaVAZAgUgN+MZEHEwcq9Dz6weyA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.1808290917190.41601@aneurin.horsfall.org>
sockets broke that. ioctl() always felt like special magic to me, but
sockets+ioctl is not just special magic, its arcane.
I think part of the problem is that a network binding actually isn't
"just like a file" because it incudes things like out of order
delivery, and control (side) channel.
TBF, sparse files and network file systems is another place things
broke down. For some reason, device-special and sparse files wound up
being in the too hard basket for network mounts.
I know Lindsay Marshall of old, so have a soft spot for the newcastle
connections (.../mounthost/path/to/file) syntax. I always liked this.
On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 9:30 AM Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org> wrote:
>
> I know that I'll probably get into trouble for writing this (I'm a born
> stirrer, coming from a military family), but...
>
> On Tue, 28 Aug 2018, Kevin Bowling wrote:
>
> > This is all so asinine it sounds like it’s run by a random haughty
> > social club of people far detached from systems and UNIX and especially
> > far from publishing systems papers that actually advance the art.
> > Sometimes it is necessary to let an org know it’s become a joke. I’d
> > prefer to attend and assist with something not affiliated with Usenix
> > after reading this thread.
>
> I'm having trouble thinking of an OS (still in current use) that has
> remained *mostly* unchanged over 50 years. Yes, Unix has certainly
> evolved, but is still recognisable as "do one thing, and do it well".
>
> It's just a shame that they seem to have broken the other philosophy of
> "everything looks like a file".
>
> -- Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-08-28 23:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-26 0:31 Warren Toomey
2018-08-26 1:04 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2018-08-26 1:31 ` Larry McVoy
2018-08-26 2:03 ` Clem Cole
2018-08-26 2:34 ` Larry McVoy
2018-08-26 2:47 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-08-26 4:10 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-09-05 21:31 ` Diomidis Spinellis
2018-09-06 0:23 ` Clem cole
2018-08-26 5:29 ` Kurt H Maier
2018-08-28 11:54 ` Kevin Bowling
2018-08-28 23:30 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-08-28 23:37 ` George Michaelson [this message]
2018-08-31 21:47 ` [TUHS] Usenix: no official Unix 50th celebration, (yet) Clem Cole
2018-12-26 21:49 ` reed
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