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- From: mouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
- Subject: Re: The Problem with UNIX
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.132517.9313@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 13:25:17 GMT
- References: <1992Nov9.172715.16367@cs.wisc.edu> <1992Nov14.151318.1376@global.hacktic.nl>
- Organization: McGill Research Centre for Intelligent Machines
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- In article <1992Nov14.151318.1376@global.hacktic.nl>, peter@global.hacktic.nl (Peter Busser) writes:
- > acourtny@unix1.tcd.ie (Antony A. Courtney) writes:
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- >> and structural elegance of that other system once called UNIX.
- > That's a good point! For instance, instead of using the creat()
- > system call, which creates a file with given permissions, they added
- > a parameter open() to duplicate the functionality of creat().
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- That's a point. They should have had the guts to dump creat() when
- they folded it into open(). (Or are you saying they shouldn't have
- extended open? Would you prefer to have a separate syscall for each
- permutation of flag bits in the second argument to current open()?)
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- der Mouse
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