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Date sent:  17-DEC-1992 10:39:17


>Are you happy with the $QIO system service?

        Yes, Jamie, I sure am.  I'm even happy with the driver
        interface.  When you've got someone as ornery as me
        happy with both sides of an I/O subsystem, that's a good
        place to quit and go have a beer.

>If you were building a new O/S from scratch, would you make the
>"basic I/O call" that's available for non-privileged programs look like $QIO,
>or like something else?

        To a large degree yes.  I would however provide an RTL equivalent
        (LIB$IO?) which had the following arguments:
            lib$io(chan,func,itmlst)

        While that wouldn't work for everything, it would do synchronous
        I/O with internal $SYNCH.

>        --- Jamie Hanrahan, Kernel Mode Consulting, San Diego CA
>Chair, Programming and Internals Working Group, U.S. DECUS VMS Systems SIG
>Internet:  jeh@cmkrnl.com, hanrahan@eisner.decus.org, or jeh@crash.cts.com
>Uucp:  ...{crash,eisner,uunet}!cmkrnl!jeh


Ehud

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