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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!pipex!marble.uknet.ac.uk!mcsun!ieunet!dec4ie.ieunet.ie!jkh From: jkh@whisker.lotus.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) Subject: Re: A challenge to all true hackers: objects and types In-Reply-To: mark@roissy.umd.edu's message of 25 Mar 1993 16: 02:51 GMT Message-ID: <JKH.93Mar26002039@whisker.lotus.ie> Sender: usenet@ieunet.ie (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: whisker.lotus.ie Organization: Lotus Development Ireland References: <JKH.93Mar20153113@whisker.lotus.ie> <ARNEJ.93Mar24113744@chanur.imf.unit.no> <C4FEo2.8no@sugar.neosoft.com> <1osl3b$8vl@umd5.umd.edu> Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1993 00:20:39 GMT Lines: 18 >They are a fiction that is maintained by the user level programs. The >kernel does not maintain them. They are an array of strings that are >stored _somewhere_ in the user process, but they are entirely under the We know all that - that's what makes it more difficult, but it's not impossible. >Hewlett Packard has an interesting feature that was mentioned at the >beginning of this discussion. It is "Context Dependent Files". A CDF is >essentially invisible. When you access the directory, you don't get the One word summary: Puke. Jordan -- Jordan Hubbard Lotus Development Ireland jkh@whisker.lotus.ie 386bsd Patchkit Coordinator All-around nice dude. I do not speak for Lotus as that's not in my job description.