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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: PAX : Too many open files
Message-ID: <3142@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 20 Feb 89 16:16:27 GMT
References: <2895@mhres.mh.nl>
Organization: Xenix Support
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In article <2895@mhres.mh.nl>, jv@mhres.mh.nl (Johan Vromans) writes:
> Of course, this is only possible because the IO operations were part
> of the language, like in Pascal, and not a separate package, like
> in C. 

Nothing of the sort. You can implement libraries that work that way...
just design the calls that way:

	read(&status, fd, buf, nbytes); /* if status pointer == NULL,
					   call system error handler */
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