Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!unmvax!gatech!psuvax1!schwartz@shire.cs.psu.edu From: schwartz@shire.cs.psu.edu (Scott Schwartz) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: What kinds of things would you want in the GNU OS? Message-ID: <4613@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu> Date: 25 May 89 19:43:36 GMT References: <106326@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <31756@bu-cs.BU.EDU> Sender: news@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu Reply-To: schwartz@shire.cs.psu.edu (Scott Schwartz) Organization: Pennsylvania State University, Computer Science Lines: 10 One thing to think about including is the unix++ stuff that Felix Lee and I have been advocating recently. We have a 4.3 implementation about half done now, so by the time GNU gets rolling there will be some prior art to build upon. [For those who missed it, unix++ virtualizes the file access system by extending open() to include modes O_NONE, O_EXEC, and O_CHANGE, and by adding system calls fchdir, fexec, etc.] -- Scott Schwartz