From: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: howto make system calls (newbie question)
Date: 9 May 2001 07:28:56 -0500
Date: 2001-05-09T07:28:56-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2ecbjJt$+0y8@eisner.encompasserve.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 9dauu7$8m913@news.kvaerner.com
In article <9dauu7$8m913@news.kvaerner.com>, "Tarjei T. Jensen" <tarjei.jensen@kvaerner.com> writes:
>
> Larry Kilgallen wrote
>>The proposal was to implement standard datatypes for system calls.
>>A descriptor is the most common datatype for VMS system calls. I
>>am sure that other operating systems have their own datatypes that
>>also do not have universal applicability.
>
> Why would someone include VMS specifics for Unix or windows nt for that
> matter? It makes no sense to have items specific for Unix on a VMS system
> (unless one is using the posix subsystem).
I certainly agree, but I was responding to a thread with entries
espousing codification of all "standard datatypes" that might be
used in system calls. I consider that unworkable, because what
constitutes a "standard datatype" varies so much between various
operating systems. Basically, I do not feel there is progress
to be made in that direction.
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Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-05-04 20:56 howto make system calls (newbie question) Beard, Frank
2001-05-07 14:42 ` Marin David Condic
2001-05-07 16:41 ` Samuel T. Harris
2001-05-07 18:25 ` Marin David Condic
2001-05-08 20:30 ` Samuel T. Harris
2001-05-08 21:13 ` Marin David Condic
2001-05-08 20:23 ` Samuel T. Harris
2001-05-08 7:34 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2001-05-08 12:16 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-05-08 14:12 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2001-05-08 16:48 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-05-08 21:40 ` Charles Hixson
2001-05-08 22:53 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-05-09 16:00 ` Charles Hixson
2001-05-09 17:14 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-05-09 8:25 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2001-05-09 12:28 ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
2001-05-09 16:13 ` Charles Hixson
2001-05-10 7:17 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2001-05-08 13:43 ` Marin David Condic
2001-05-12 2:58 ` Randy Brukardt
2001-05-12 13:07 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-05-14 13:29 ` Ada Libraries (was Re: howto make system calls (newbie question)) Marin David Condic
2001-05-14 19:16 ` Randy Brukardt
2001-05-14 22:35 ` Ada Libraries Marin David Condic
2001-05-14 19:27 ` Ada Libraries (was Re: howto make system calls (newbie question)) tmoran
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2001-05-10 21:22 howto make system calls (newbie question) Beard, Frank
2001-05-10 20:11 Beard, Frank
2001-05-11 16:03 ` Samuel T. Harris
2001-05-10 19:54 Beard, Frank
2001-05-10 20:41 ` Pascal Obry
2001-05-09 22:28 Beard, Frank
2001-05-09 22:19 Beard, Frank
2001-05-10 6:18 ` Pascal Obry
2001-05-10 12:40 ` Samuel T. Harris
2001-05-10 15:44 ` Stephen Leake
2001-05-09 22:07 Beard, Frank
2001-05-10 12:34 ` Samuel T. Harris
2001-05-09 21:42 Mike Brenner
2001-05-07 17:04 Beard, Frank
2001-05-04 21:08 Beard, Frank
2001-05-04 22:45 ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-05-07 14:47 ` Marin David Condic
2001-05-09 13:41 ` Noam Kloos
2001-05-09 14:17 ` Ted Dennison
2001-05-16 12:45 ` Marc A. Criley
2001-05-16 19:50 ` Ted Dennison
2001-05-09 18:29 ` GianLuigi Piacentini
2001-05-09 19:18 ` David Starner
2001-05-04 7:51 Lars Lundgren
2001-05-04 8:16 ` L.H.Jeong
2001-05-04 8:47 ` Lars Lundgren
2001-05-04 12:12 ` Marc A. Criley
2001-05-04 15:49 ` Marin David Condic
2001-05-04 17:46 ` tmoran
2001-05-04 18:46 ` Marin David Condic
2001-05-05 7:01 ` tmoran
2001-05-04 16:35 ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-05-04 11:00 ` Noam Kloos
2001-05-04 12:01 ` Lars Lundgren
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