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- Date: Sun, 17 Nov 85 16:28:42 PST
- From: seismo!sun!gorodish!guy (Guy Harris)
-
- > I support the idea of making the limits available at run-time, but
- > let's not copy Berkeley's naming (getdlimit or whatever it is). There
- > should be just *one* call that gets all the limits into a struct;
- > Berkeley compatability can be achieved with "wrapper" routines.
-
- I wanted to make sure nobody introduced a routine to get the size of
- the descriptor table with the same semantics as 4.2BSD's, but with a
- different name.
-
- > UniSoft has already done 90% of the work of this call by moving
- > everything that used to be in param.h into a structure named 'v'. This
- > was done so that binary customers could patch NPROC et al easily, but a
- > system call that returned the contents of 'v' would be trivial to add.
- > Maybe we could get AT&T to buy the changes (they're extensive) from UniSoft.
-
- You've got it backwards here. The PWB/UNIX group at AT&T invented
- the "v" structure; a lot of PWB/UNIX stuff, including the "v"
- structure, made it into UNIX/TS 1.0 and subsequent releases from the
- USG/USDL including S3 and S5. UniSoft already bought that code from
- AT&T, so there's no need to get AT&T to buy it back.
-
- Volume-Number: Volume 3, Number 31
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