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Article #13940Re: resource tracking
From: Peter da Silva
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1990 13:28
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1990 13:28
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> I am not sure that the problem lies in the fact that IPC is done with
> messages or not.
No, it doesn't matter if IPC is done with postcards or post office boxes,
either. It complicates things whatever way you do it. MS Windows is widely
regarded as an incredibly hard environment to program in (I just saw a joke
on the net: "What's bigger than Hello World in X?" "Hello World in Microsoft
Windows!"). There are better examples of safe message passing systems... Mach
being a good example.
> it is not the "method" that might be faulty, but the implementation.
A better implementation is certainly possible, but it's still a hard problem.
Going back to post office boxes, there are thousands of unclaimed PO boxes
ever year, as well as bank accounts and so on. It's a hard problem in the real
world as well...
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!texbell!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: resource tracking Message-ID: <5219@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 28 Feb 90 13:28:48 GMT References: <1165@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> <5214@sugar.hackercorp.com> <23118@usc.edu> Reply-To: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston Lines: 21