26 Mar
2017
26 Mar
'17
5:51 a.m.
On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 11:32 PM, Noel Chiappa <jnc(a)mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
wrote:
No. Records implemented at a layer above that of the bare system calls (or,
in the case of datagram-oriented protocols, coordinated between two layers
sandwiching read()/write()). That seems very Unix-like to me: consider
ndbm, Berkeley DB, etc. The point is that the interface as exposed by the
kernel doesn't care.
- Dan C.
From: Andrew
Warkentin
especially with one that preserves message
boundaries
Records in the file-system! How very Unix-like!