Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!ulysses!hector!ekrell From: ekrell@hector.UUCP (Eduardo Krell) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: UNIX System V Release n Keywords: UNIX System V Release 4.0 Multics complexity kludge Message-ID: <10983@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> Date: 9 Dec 88 14:24:14 GMT References: <422@ubbpc.UUCP> <9089@smoke.BRL.MIL> <10968@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> <654@auspex.UUCP> Sender: netnews@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com Reply-To: ekrell@hector.UUCP (Eduardo Krell) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 13 In article <654@auspex.UUCP> guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris) writes: >Well, err, umm, code to perform much of the *equivalent* of those system >calls may end up in the kernel (cf. TPI), so it's not quite so much of >an improvement as it seems. Well, it will be an improvement once you try to add the greatest, latest communication protocol (OSI or whatever) and you realize that you don't need new system calls !! Eduardo Krell AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ UUCP: {att,decvax,ucbvax}!ulysses!ekrell Internet: ekrell@ulysses.att.com