Help us defend against VMS!

[Brandon Allbery]

As quoted from <12152 at brl-adm.ARPA> by mwm at violet.berkeley.edu (My watch has windows):
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| On the other hand, there are lots of OS features - shared memory,
| shared libraries, real IPC (as opposed to pipes), remote file systems,
| and other interesting things for five years or more. These are things
| that either don't exist, or have no standard, in Unix systems. At best
| they have defacto standards.
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?!  I know that all you folks consider non-BSD Unixes to not be Unix, but
these and other features are all in System V Release 3, which (believe it or
not) IS a standard.

So why are you all comparing VMS to an OS which doesn't support record locking
and is schizoid over how to use shared memory?  ;-)

[Hey AT&T:  shared memory might be a pain to attach to the filesystem, but
message queues make sense there.  But please add something like msg_qnum
to file operations rather than forcing the O_NDELAY braindamage on messages.
AND MAKE poll() WORK ON NON-STREAMS!!!]
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	      Brandon S. Allbery, moderator of comp.sources.misc
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