Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 23:01:42 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Stephen McKay <syssgm@dtir.qld.gov.au> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: REPOST: dup3() - interesting feature-in-training or silly hack? Message-ID: <20252.858754902@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 19 Mar 1997 16:40:30 %2B1000." <199703190640.QAA16421@ogre.dtir.qld.gov.au>
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> I think you've had an interesting learning experience doing this (tragic) > thing to your kernel, but now you should put it all back. :-) :-) Yes, I'd already decided that well before now. Of course, having to allocate virtual terminals all over the place just to get a flexible I/O model is rude and disgusting too, and only shows that somebody wasn't thinking hard enough when they decided that having stdin, stdout and stderr constituted "sufficient interaction" for a UNIX process. Now if just files and sockets and pipes went away and became generalized CORBA objects, we could... *Wurgh* Sorry... Still some lingering side-effects. :-) Jordan
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