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- From: GAVRON@IT.SUNQUEST.COM (Ehud Gavron 602-570-2546)
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.internals
- Subject: RE: Call for partly-baked ideas: $QIO replacement?
- Message-ID: <921217104147.80dc@IT.SUNQUEST.COM>
- Date: 17 Dec 92 17:41:47 GMT
- Organization: Macro32<==>Vmsnet.Internals Gateway
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- Date sent: 17-DEC-1992 10:39:17
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- >Are you happy with the $QIO system service?
-
- Yes, Jamie, I sure am. I'm even happy with the driver
- interface. When you've got someone as ornery as me
- happy with both sides of an I/O subsystem, that's a good
- place to quit and go have a beer.
-
- >If you were building a new O/S from scratch, would you make the
- >"basic I/O call" that's available for non-privileged programs look like $QIO,
- >or like something else?
-
- To a large degree yes. I would however provide an RTL equivalent
- (LIB$IO?) which had the following arguments:
- lib$io(chan,func,itmlst)
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- While that wouldn't work for everything, it would do synchronous
- I/O with internal $SYNCH.
-
- > --- Jamie Hanrahan, Kernel Mode Consulting, San Diego CA
- >Chair, Programming and Internals Working Group, U.S. DECUS VMS Systems SIG
- >Internet: jeh@cmkrnl.com, hanrahan@eisner.decus.org, or jeh@crash.cts.com
- >Uucp: ...{crash,eisner,uunet}!cmkrnl!jeh
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-
- Ehud
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- Ehud Gavron (EG76)
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