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From: boyd@basser.oz (Boyd Roberts)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Maybe there should be a new flag to open(2)
Message-ID: <466@basser.oz>
Date: Sat, 19-Oct-85 03:49:59 EDT
Article-I.D.: basser.466
Posted: Sat Oct 19 03:49:59 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 20-Oct-85 06:34:11 EDT
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Reply-To: boyd@basser.OZ (Boyd Roberts)
Organization: Dept. of Comp. Science, Uni of Sydney, Australia
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Summary: head-through-the-terminal-time

It really must be head-through-the-terminal time.  Features, you want
features!  I want coherence, clean design and clarity of implementation.
I just can't believe the attitude of "I need this dubious feature because
I couldn't code up a solution without it".

But, anyway, if you want this crap, why not write it in user-mode.  That's
why we use C.  That's why we have functions.  You can poison your own domain,
but leave the rest of the place free from such pestilence.

When I see news items containing such puerile and infantile suggestions,
my first reaction is to put an axe through my terminal, find another one,
``su'' and ``rm -fr /usr/spool/news''.

I guess you could say I feel strongly about this.


Boyd Roberts		...!seismo!munnari!basser.oz!boyd