Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 22 Jun 1999 17:40:45 +1000 | | From | Richard Gooch <> | | Subject | Re: Some very thought-provoking ideas about OS architecture. |
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Matthew Wilcox writes: > The alternative would be to drop ioctl altogether and replace it > with a different interface. plan9 uses ctl files -- you write > strings to them to perform commands. But I'm not sure people are > willing to make that kind of radical change (certainly not within > the 2.3 timeframe).
But then there would be the added cost of parsing/comparing control strings. A switch on an integer is much cheaper.
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