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- Submitted-by: Jack.Jansen@cwi.nl (Jack Jansen)
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- peter@ficc.ferranti.com (peter da silva) writes:
- >Peter Collinson noted in the recent Standards Update that there was
- >opposition to a standard non-blocking system call interface, on the
- >grounds that the threads interface provided the same functionality.
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- >For the case where threads are implemented in user mode, or as a side
- >effect of threads, it's likely that most implementations will have
- >some such facility anyway. Given this, I think it would be highly
- >desirable to spell out a standard interface, whether or not the facility
- >itself is mandated.
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- Hmm, I don't think that this is a good idea. If Posix takes the
- easy-way-out of sanctioning multiple solutions to the same problem
- just a few times more the whole thing will become worthless. I know,
- profiles are the magic word (and a good thing, in some cases) but if
- you provide more than one way to do almost everything Posix will
- become as useless a label as "user friendly".
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- Volume-Number: Volume 27, Number 27
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