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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Object-oriented what? (was: Future of FreeBSD)
Date: 16 Aug 1995 10:51:42 +0200
Organization: Private U**x site, Dresden.
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Dave Duling <duling@niehs.nih.gov> wrote:
>If you learned to program on DOS-OS/2-NT, then making system calls in BSD or
>SYS V is very awkward and so you think UNIX is hard to program for. You like
>the integrated environment. {:-(}
Hmm, do you think setting up something like
int
sysfoo(const char *foo)
{
struct reg r;
r.r_ax = 0x33;
r.r_cx = strlen(foo);
r.r_dx = foo;
int21(&r);
return r.r_ax;
}
is less awkward than
int
sysfoo(const char *foo)
{
return write(2, (void *)foo, strlen(foo)) >= 0;
}
??? :-)
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)