Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!texbell!sugar!peter
From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: resource tracking
Keywords: Discipline, discipline
Message-ID: <5178@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Date: 18 Feb 90 15:51:46 GMT
References: <355.25C92297@weyr.FIDONET.ORG> <926@tardis.Tymnet.COM> <352@amgraf.UUCP> <5156@sugar.hackercorp.com> <5159@sugar.hackercorp.com> <9704@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Reply-To: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston
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In article <9704@cbmvax.commodore.com> valentin@cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com (Valentin Pepelea) writes:
> 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.

If I interpret you correctly, you've misinterpreted me. In UNIX, message
passing is the exception. In the Amiga, "system calls" are all messages.

So you're just saying the same thing I said: in UNIX, IPC is the exception.
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