net@tub.UUCP (01/06/86)
Just out of curiosity, a question to those in the know of the 4.2BSD design rationale: It is unclear to me why the mail notification in BSD-UNIX is carried out by a separate daemon (comsat(8C)). The notification might as well have been done by the final delivery program (e.g. binmail) itself, which anyway has to carry the knowledge of how to inform comsat(8C). Thanks. Oliver Laumann tub!net net@db0tui6.BITNET