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From: boyd@necisa.necisa.oz (Boyd Roberts)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: getcwd() and friends.
Message-ID: <824@necisa.necisa.oz>
Date: 26 Apr 89 01:27:05 GMT
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What we really need is /dev/time.  Opening it returns a descriptor refering
to the system time inode.  You can fstat() it and determine the current
time from the modification time.  Its modification time would be updated
by clock().

A host of advantages would follow.  date(1) would be "ls -l /dev/time | cut ..".

This would move us ever closer to a true descriptor based OS...


Boyd Roberts			NEC Information Systems Australia

boyd@necisa.necisa.oz

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