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From std-unix-request@uunet.uu.net Thu Oct 18 00:29:53 1990
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From: flee@guardian.cs.psu.edu (Felix Lee)
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Subject: Re: Unified I/O namespace: what's the point?
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Submitted-by: flee@guardian.cs.psu.edu (Felix Lee)
>On the contrary. syslog is a counterexample. While it is hardly as
>modular as I would like, it shows that (0) an fd-centric model works;
syslog shows the limitations of an fd-centric model. B News, for
example, writes log entries in the files "log" and "errlog". You
cannot redirect this into syslog without modifying code.
If syslog existed in the filesystem namespace, you might
ln -s /syslog/news.info log
ln -s /syslog/news.err errlog
or maybe even
ln -s ~/mylog/news.err errlog
and everything would work.
Why should I have to teach all my programs about syslog when I can
just write to a filesystem object instead?
--
Felix Lee flee@cs.psu.edu
Volume-Number: Volume 21, Number 204