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From: valentin@cbmvax.commodore.com (Valentin Pepelea)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: resource tracking
Keywords: Discipline, discipline
Message-ID: <9704@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 16 Feb 90 19:09:26 GMT
References: <355.25C92297@weyr.FIDONET.ORG> <926@tardis.Tymnet.COM> <352@amgraf.UUCP> <5156@sugar.hackercorp.com> <5159@sugar.hackercorp.com>
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In article <5159@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>
>On UNIX IPC is the exception. On the Amiga, IPC is the norm. Every system
>call is actually a message passed to another program.

Whoa! Come on, you know better than that! I can name a huge number of system
calls which do not end up send a message somewhere else. In fact, I have
a lot of difficulty identifying the calls which actually do send a message.
They're pretty rare.

Valentin
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