From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: rminnich@gmail.com (ron minnich) Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2018 22:38:53 +0000 Subject: [TUHS] Device special files In-Reply-To: References: <1517946499.3717582.1261737872.3DC598F2@webmail.messagingengine.com> <20180207012556.GL30690@eureka.lemis.com> <20180207021405.CF19B156E812@mail.bitblocks.com> <20180207183607.E3NiH%steffen@sdaoden.eu> <20180207190759.7sjrf6ta4m7sct3d@matica.foolinux.mooo.com> Message-ID: On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 2:06 PM Clem Cole wrote: > One might suggest it was pretty damned elegant for the time. > yes, it was quite fine then. Getting distributed systems right is not simple. There have been lots of efforts to get it right by larding more and more software over what's already there. It can be made to work but it's never very nice. I tend to prefer the take stuff away approach myself, but to each his own. ron -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: