chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) (06/28/88)
>In article <8167@ncoast.UUCP>, allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) writes: >>... In other words, the usual 4.xBSD-source elitism.) In article <1186@mcgill-vision.UUCP> mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP (der Mouse) writes: >... if you check back and look at the original postings on this >issue, the /dev/stdin point was first brought up as follows: [This from Andrew Hume] >> a unix without /dev/stdin is largely bogus but as a sop to the poor >> barstards having to work on BSD, gre will support - >> as stdin (at least for a while). [He is Australian, so he is allowed to talk like this :-)] >With phrasing like that, I can hardly blame Chris for rising to the >defense of his driver. And note the "BSD" phrase: that's the context >in which Chris said there was no excuse for complaining about not >having /dev/stdin. And in that context, I agree with him. Actually, it is Fred Blonder's driver; he wrote it before anyone here heard of /dev/stdin in V8 Unix. >And there's no call for complaints about source elitism. My /dev/stdin >driver can be added to a binary distribution; surely Chris' can too. You will need to know the conventions for your system, but yes, it should not be hard. Since it only has an `open' routine, it is probably the simplest driver in the Unix world anyway. -- In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 7163) Domain: chris@mimsy.umd.edu Path: uunet!mimsy!chris
allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) (07/06/88)
As quoted from <12169@mimsy.UUCP> by chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek): +--------------- | >And there's no call for complaints about source elitism. My /dev/stdin | >driver can be added to a binary distribution; surely Chris' can too. | | You will need to know the conventions for your system, but yes, it | should not be hard. Since it only has an `open' routine, it is probably | the simplest driver in the Unix world anyway. +--------------- So can anyone tell me how to add it to a System III kernel -- what changes might be needed to make it work (I *do* know how to actually add the driver, but SysIII isn't SysV)? [We may move to System V or even BSD in the future -- money permitting. Don't push us unless you intend to pay for it.] -- Brandon S. Allbery, uunet!marque!ncoast!allbery DELPHI: ALLBERY For comp.sources.misc send mail to ncoast!sources-misc