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Date:      Thu, 23 Oct 1997 16:11:28 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
Cc:        nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams), luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: zipfs filesystem anyone ?
Message-ID:  <199710232211.QAA17154@rocky.mt.sri.com>
In-Reply-To: <199710232145.OAA07834@usr05.primenet.com>
References:  <199710231935.NAA16573@rocky.mt.sri.com> <199710232145.OAA07834@usr05.primenet.com>

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> > > The VFS interface is not reflexive.
> > 
> > Forgive me, but does that mean that the interface doesn't jerk when you
> > hit it in the knee? *grin*
> 
> No, it's a term from computer science, not medicine.

Never heard it in any of my classes.

> It means that there are side effects to the interface, and that the
> caller is dependent on the side effects.

Kind of like strdup(3)? *grin*


Nate



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