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- Date: Fri, 7 Feb 86 01:12:07 pst
- >From: pyramid!decwrl!mips!mash (John Mashey)
-
- Re: having followed this discussion somewhat randomly, I thought that
- was one the ways that people were casting this, and so cast the example
- that way. Perhaps a better way to state the general case is:
- a) one needs to specify the state vector associated with each
- object in the system.
- b) One must specify how operations depend on the state of the objects.
- c) Any time one adds a new item to an existing state vector,
- one should carefully check to see that it is needed, and is as general
- as makes sense, not just a special case.
- d) ANy time one adds an enitre new state vector, or a completely
- new kind of interaction with operations, like c), but more so.
-
- Certainly, I don't feel very strongly about any of this, EXCEPT that
- this feels to me like a wart of the following nature:
- a) It is a special case of potential value.
- b) It is a special case of some general case that has not yet been
- expressed.
- c) It is not of such critical nature that it should be implemented
- without better understanding the general case.
- d) If somebody really wants to, they can get almost any of
- the proposed effects by using 1) tweeked creat(2) Interface routine,
-
- 2) environ variable checked by the new creat()
- 3) a dot-file with umask value left in each directory.
- The questions is: does anybody who has the source to do this have enough
- interest to try this out?
-
- Volume-Number: Volume 5, Number 42
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