Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!oliveb!3comvax!bridge2!auspex!guy 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 References: <422@ubbpc.UUCP> <9089@smoke.BRL.MIL> <10968@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> Reply-To: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris) Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara Lines: 7 >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.