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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: ftw (was Re: Anything faster than stat(S)? ...)
Message-ID: <11676@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 23 Nov 89 16:16:40 GMT
References: <152@norsat.UUCP> <2586@unisoft.UUCP> <159@norsat.UUCP> <1989Nov21.070322.6352@dragos.uucp>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <1989Nov21.070322.6352@dragos.uucp> ruiu@dragos.UUCP (dragos) writes:
>Speaking of which, does anyone have any knowledge of the status of FTW ?
>I've been tempted to try reverse engineering the routines from the Usenix
>paper for my "quaint" SysV.2 system.

I was going to do that and place it in the public domain, only to find
out that IEEE 1003 has been working on specs for a similar but
different facility.  I decided to wait for the dust to settle.