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- Submitted-by: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
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- In article <541@usenix.ORG> brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes:
- >In the filesystem abstraction, you open a filename in one stage. You
- >can't do anything between initiating the open and finding out whether or
- >not it succeeds. This just doesn't match reality, and it places a huge
- >restriction on programs that want to do something else while they
- >communicate.
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- Programs that want to do two things at once should use explicit parallelism,
- e.g. some sort of threads facility. In every case I've seen, this yielded
- vastly superior code, with clearer structure and better error handling.
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- Volume-Number: Volume 21, Number 131
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