lm@snafu.Sun.COM (Larry McVoy) (07/17/90)
(Martin Weitzel) (Chris Calabrese[mav]) (Eliot Moss) write: >:> for (i = 0; i < FOUR_K; ++i) >:> write (fd, buf, ONE_K); >:> [ ... ] Can we please get this drivel out of unix-wizards? Take it to unix-questions where it belongs. Please. --- Larry McVoy, Sun Microsystems (415) 336-7627 ...!sun!lm or lm@sun.com
istvan@hhb.UUCP (Istvan Mohos) (07/19/90)
lm@snafu.Sun.COM (Larry McVoy) writes: >Can we please get this drivel out of unix-wizards? Take it to >unix-questions where it belongs. Please. Not to anger the great wizard, but the simplest solution of keeping "this drivel" out of comp.sources.wizards would have been a preemptive, authoritative answer to the first poster, about how to reserve disk space without writing to the disk. Because this is certainly not a "frequently asked question" and neither does it appear to have an obvious answer (in fact no real answers were forthcoming from anyone here), I for one, did think the question worthy of the attention of this august newsgroup. Apparently, my boundaries of the imaginary "domain of wizardly topics" are in need of revision, and I'd like to know if you could share your list of such topics that receive your blessing. -- Istvan Mohos ...uunet!pyrdc!pyrnj!hhb!istvan RACAL-REDAC/HHB 1000 Wyckoff Ave. Mahwah NJ 07430 201-848-8000 ======================================================================
lm@snafu.Sun.COM (Larry McVoy) (07/19/90)
In article <567@hhb.UUCP> istvan@hhb.UUCP (Istvan Mohos) writes: >Not to anger the great wizard, but the simplest solution of keeping >"this drivel" out of comp.sources.wizards would have been a preemptive, >authoritative answer to the first poster, about how to reserve disk >space without writing to the disk. Fine. Under all versions of Unix that use anything resembling the two generic Unix file systems, i.e. BSD and SysV, this cannot be done in any standard fashion. Various vendors that provide realtime Unix systems have added this capability. Even these implementations will end up writing control information to disk. >Because this is certainly not a "frequently asked question" and neither >does it appear to have an obvious answer (in fact no real answers were >forthcoming from anyone here), I for one, did think the question worthy >of the attention of this august newsgroup. I too would be interested in an answer to this question. We've seen no answer because there is no answer. All we're seeing is a pointless discussion of "Do 1 big write. No, do a lot of little writes. No, do a lot of lseek/write pairs." That discussion is concerned with basic Unix (or non-Unix, for that matter) programming issues and is not appropriate for this group. Try and understand that I'm not trying to be inflammatory. I'm trying to keep the signal to noise in the group reasonable. It's my belief that the people that can provide signal aren't enthralled with noise. I, for one, would like to keep them reading this group since I need their help from time to time. --- Larry McVoy, Sun Microsystems (415) 336-7627 ...!sun!lm or lm@sun.com
willr@ntpdvp1.UUCP (Will Raymond) (07/21/90)
I think the wizard who posted his contempt for the drivel being spouted
in this newsgroup should provide us with a list of SAFE, ACCEPTABLE
topics to discuss.
BTW - Maybe we should have a new newsgroup comp.unix.wizards.dribble
Whoops...drivel
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