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Author: ber
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 1984 05:53

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Review of unix-wizards, 2/4 - 2/15
	-- cmcl2!salkind

There were 162 articles.

	Continuing discussions:

Page mode in the kernel (should the kernel provide pagination) -  Loud
opinions are still being voiced on both sides (although the nays seem to
be winning).

IPC datagrams (are 4.2bsd datagrams reliable in the AF_UNIX domain) -
the answer is no.  People are now debating the merits of the 4.2bsd IPC
model.

0 vs. the NULL pointer (what is the difference) - this discussion is
finally winding down (thank god).  Some articles about machines
where sizeof(pointer) != sizeof(int).

	New discussions

Dvorak keyboards - a spinoff of the page mode discussion.

TU-58's under VAX-UNIX - several horror stories of how this beastie
was made to work under UNIX.

set noglob and tset in csh - the
	set noglob; tset
command that appears in many people's .login file is being analyzed.
(csh is losing!)  In some cases it turns out you also need a
"set nonomatch" line.  You gotta believe.

levels of UNIX - another spinoff of the page mode discussion.
People ask "as long as you are moving the paginator into the kernel,
why not move the shell as well?"  etc...

Finally, how do you do non-blocking I/O in System V.

	Other Things

Source offerings:
	code for naming directories
	tcp/ip over a serial line
	dtree

Random queries:
	help with troff macros
	what is 4.1 compatibility mode in 4.2bsd do?
	what to do about VAX machine checks
	permissions on /usr/spool/mail
	how do you read a crash dump?

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