From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!dmy
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards,net.misc
Title: Is it true in 4.2 ?
Article-I.D.: seismo.196
Posted: Wed Jan 12 11:03:36 1983
Received: Fri Jan 14 02:29:47 1983


Is it true that in 4.2 the "open" command will take three arguments?
Won't this break virtually every program?
If so, why not simply have the kernel call be Open (or opEN or whatever) with
open, creat, etc. defined in terms of it (macro, subroutine, hard wired,
whichever is best).
It is only rarely necessary and desirable to cause the sky to fall.

--dmy-- (David Yablon, decvax!harpo!seismo!dmy)