From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jul 28 05:17:55 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id FAA07059 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 28 Jul 1995 05:17:55 -0700 Received: from spooky.rwwa.com (rwwa.com [198.115.177.3]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id FAA07046 for ; Fri, 28 Jul 1995 05:17:52 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spooky.rwwa.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id IAA06946 for ; Fri, 28 Jul 1995 08:23:26 -0400 Message-Id: <199507281223.IAA06946@spooky.rwwa.com> X-Authentication-Warning: spooky.rwwa.com: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol X-Mailer: exmh version 1.5.3 12/28/94 To: hackers@freebsd.org In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 27 Jul 1995 20:48:00 PDT." <5387.806903280@time.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Fri, 28 Jul 1995 08:23:25 -0400 From: Robert Withrow Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > Oh great. One of UNIX's worst abortions, taken to extremes (can you > say "ioctl() is a bogus ``API'' for controlling behavior?" I thought > so).. You are mistaken. Everthing is *not* an ioctl. It instead resembles something like the proc filesystem. Do you think *that* is an abortion? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Withrow, Tel: +1 617 598 4480, Fax: +1 617 598 4430 Net: witr@rwwa.COM R.W. Withrow Associates, 319 Lynnway Suite 201, Lynn MA 01901 USA