- From: Jeff Bone <jbone@jump.net>
- Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 19:55:54 -0600
- To: Miles Sabin <miles@mistral.co.uk>
- CC: www-tag@w3.org
Miles Sabin wrote: > Jeff Bone wrote, > > As my perennial anecdotal evidence to suggest that system complexity > > is vastly reduced and power gained by highly constrained type > > systems / universal generic interfaces, consider the overall > > simplicity and "functionality to lines-of-code" qualities obtained > > in Plan vis-a-vis UNIX by pushing the "everything is a file," > > "everything in the same namespace," and "text streams everywhere" > > concepts to their logical conclusions. > > That's a good example, but it also does a good job of showing up > the limitations of that sort of extremism. What are all those ioctls > for if the Plan 9/UNIX model is really so uniform? Can you really > accept() on a _file_ descriptor as opposed to a listening socket > descriptor? Is the uniformity reality or ideology? Notice that I said Plan [9, woops] *vis-a-vis* UNIX. Plan 9 doesn't have an ioctl call, AFAIK: http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html?pat=ioctl jb
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