jcampbell@mrfort.DEC (Jon Campbell) (08/08/85)
Thanks for all your input. By the way, I want to make it clear that I am NOT speaking for the ULTRIX group, which is many miles from where I work here in Marlboro, nor am I implying that Digital was considering making changes to its ULTRIX kernel to solve the "problem" I think I identified. I think I now understand the aversion to "out-of-band data" expressed by many of you in your replies. It creates all sorts of complexities which the UNIX kernel has avoided by its simplicity. What I needed was some feedback from real UNIX users and wizards about how I might solve a theoretical issue, namely, the building of "smarter" language runtime libraries and data manipulation systems, and you provided a wealth of information for that purpose. Thanks again, Jon Campbell --------