Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 08:44:33 -0800 (PST) From: Kip Macy <kip@lyris.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> Cc: miaobo@mail.zhongxing.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Code Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.05.9912230842230.22860-100000@luna.lyris.com> In-Reply-To: <10636.945922106@zippy.cdrom.com>
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> Taking a more direct implementation approach in our process model is, > I feel, what also led to the current model of the open file descriptor > table, a primitive mechanism which isn't even close to being abstract > enough to allow one to do the really neat stuff, like break or insert > things into existing pipe streams, redirect the source or sink in a > stream after it's been established, etc. Such abilities would seem to > be an only natural extention to Unix's traditional "give an engineer a > flexible set of tools" philosophy, and maybe if people had thought a > bit more about process migration back when BSD was getting its start, > we'd at least have some of the nifty abstractions and mechanisms which > lead up to the ability to migrate processes if not the actual > ability. :-) > > - Jordan Interesting. I had just become so accustomed to thinking that the ad hoc nature of processes as being the only way for things to be. -Kip To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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