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>
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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

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