Re: Determine if open(2) created or opened?
From: Måns Rullgård (mru_at_kth.se)
Date: 12/28/03
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Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 10:51:47 +0100
Rich Teer <rich.teer@rite-group.com> writes:
> On Sat, 27 Dec 2003, Michael B Allen wrote:
>
>> and release a new spec? After 30 years I suppose we should *think* about
>> ditching backward campatability. While their at it they can remove the
>
> You can't do that in the real world, alas.
You can easily add new improved versions of system calls and keep the
old ones for compatibility. Linux does it all the time.
>> rediculous crap like hsearch. There's no mandatory locking, silly open
>> file limits, poor support for process shared semaphores and condition
>> variables (at least Linux), feable internationalization utilities (iconv
Those are being worked on, AFAIK.
> WHo said Linux was POSIX compliant in the first place? :-)
>
>> UNIX only has an edge over Windows because it's simple (and thus
>> secure). But eventually Windows will become secure (enough) and people
>> will demand an API with more vision than POSIX.
>
> Windoze will never be secure enough, IMHO.
Secure enough to sell, but that's the limit.
-- Måns Rullgård mru@kth.se
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