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 -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe current" in the body of the message
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