Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!agate!homer.Berkeley.EDU!mcgrath From: mcgrath@homer.Berkeley.EDU (Roland McGrath) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Write calls which do partial writes Message-ID: Date: 13 May 89 05:35:08 GMT References: <103@matrix.UUCP> <10198@smoke.BRL.MIL> <18735@mips.mips.COM> <530@visdc.UUCP> <372@ladcgw.UUCP> <10248@smoke.BRL.MIL> Sender: usenet@agate.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: Hackers Anonymous International, Ltd., Inc. (Applications welcome) Lines: 18 In-reply-to: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL's message of 10 May 89 14:21:00 GMT In article <10248@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) writes: >So, in release 3, System V has caught up to 4.1 BSD. Impressive. Yeah, now if only 4BSD would catch up to System V... Religious war alert. Crusades imminent. I think we can all make a mutual agreement NOT to start up with this (despite the grand old Usenet tradition). Anyway, I don't care. The GNU kernel will be orders of magnitude better than either, and even now has none of the nitty-gritty kernel details that plague other systems, through the simple and elegant solution of nonexistence. -- Roland McGrath Free Software Foundation, Inc. roland@ai.mit.edu, uunet!ai.mit.edu!roland Copyright 1989 Roland McGrath, under the GNU General Public License, version 1.