Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!prls!amdimage!amdcad!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-mrfort!jcampbell From: jcampbell@mrfort.DEC (Jon Campbell) Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: attributes Message-ID: <3503@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Wed, 7-Aug-85 17:18:38 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.3503 Posted: Wed Aug 7 17:18:38 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 11-Aug-85 04:10:47 EDT Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 18 Thanks for all your input. By the way, I want to make it clear that I am NOT speaking for the ULTRIX group, which is many miles from where I work here in Marlboro, nor am I implying that Digital was considering making changes to its ULTRIX kernel to solve the "problem" I think I identified. I think I now understand the aversion to "out-of-band data" expressed by many of you in your replies. It creates all sorts of complexities which the UNIX kernel has avoided by its simplicity. What I needed was some feedback from real UNIX users and wizards about how I might solve a theoretical issue, namely, the building of "smarter" language runtime libraries and data manipulation systems, and you provided a wealth of information for that purpose. Thanks again, Jon Campbell --------