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From: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: UNIX System V Release n
Keywords: UNIX System V Release 4.0 Multics complexity kludge
Message-ID: <654@auspex.UUCP>
Date: 8 Dec 88 18:15:10 GMT
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Reply-To: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>You can provide a socket library to present the same interface as
>the socket related system calls in BSD. The point is that they don't
>need be in the kernel anymore.

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.