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- From: peter da silva <peter@ficc.ferranti.com>
-
- In article <488@usenix.ORG> fouts@bozeman.bozeman.ingr (Martin Fouts) writes:
- > > My personal opinion is that *anything* that can go into the file system
- > > name space *should*. That's what makes UNIX UNIX... that it's all visible
- > > from the shell...
-
- > I'm not sure which Unix you've been running for the past five or more
- > years, but a lot of stuff doesn't live in the file system name space
- > under various BSD derived systems,
-
- Yes, and there's even more stuff in System V that doesn't live in that
- name space. In both cases it's *wrong*.
-
- > nor do the networking types believe
- > it belongs there.
-
- Some more details on this subject would be advisable. I'm aware that not
- everything *can* go in the file system name space, by the way...
-
- > IMHO neither does a process handle, nor a
- > semaphore, and don't even talk to me about "named pipes" as an IPC
- > mechanism.
-
- An active semaphore can be implemented any way you want, but it should
- be represented by an entry in the name space. The same goes for process
- handles and so on.
-
- Named pipes are an inadequate mechanism for much IPC, but they work quite
- well for many simple cases. If you're looking at them as some sort of
- paragon representing the whole concept, you're sadly mistaken.
-
- Anyway... what is it that makes "dev/win" more worthy of having an entry
- in "/dev" than "dev/socket"?
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