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- Submitted-by: chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg)
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- According to brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein):
- >On the contrary: Given file descriptors, the filesystem is an almost
- >useless abstraction.
-
- Characterizing the Unix filesystem as "almost useless" is, frankly,
- hogwash. A hierarchical filesystem with mount points is a simple, yet
- powerful, organizational tool.
-
- To get back to the original point of this thread, one of my primary
- complaints about the System V IPC facilities is that they all live in
- a flat namespace. There is no way for me to create a subdirectory for
- my application, with naturally named IPCs within that directory. Such
- hierarchical division is "almost useless?" Hardly.
-
- >Many of us are convinced that open() and rename() and unlink() and so on
- >are an extremely poor match for unreliable or dynamic or remote I/O.
-
- Given Unix, where devices -- even those with removable media -- are
- accessed through the filesystem, I can see no reason whatsoever to
- treat network connections and other IPC facilities differently.
- --
- Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT <chip@tct.uucp>, <uunet!pdn!tct!chip>
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- Volume-Number: Volume 21, Number 141
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