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Date:      Thu, 12 Feb 1998 10:09:30 -0500 (EST)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Heads up: static -ification
Message-ID:  <199802121509.KAA21386@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <19980212143844.44164@follo.net>
References:  <19980210030906.20113@follo.net> <199802100857.BAA22938@usr05.primenet.com> <19980212143844.44164@follo.net>

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<<On Thu, 12 Feb 1998 14:38:44 +0100, Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> said:

> I actually dislike the use of calls between layers at all (or at
> least in almost all cases).  Layers should communicate through
> asynchronous messages; that way, you avoid a lot of stupid implict
> ordering assumptions.

``Layering is a great model for designing protocols, but an incredibly
lousy way of implementing them.''
	- D. D. Clark

-GAWollman

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