mbm@mit-cipg@sri-unix (08/05/82)
Date: 16 Jul 1982 08:55:14-EDT Is anybody actually using multiplexed files? If I dreamed up an application for them, would I be better off to try to make them work or to wait for something new from Berkeley? I'm wondering if using them will mean that your code will give everyone fits several years from now, like the "portable" i/o library (remember that one?) --mike
JEK@SCRC-TENEX@sri-unix (08/05/82)
Date: Friday, 16 July 1982 17:14-EDT No new code should be written using mpx files unless it needs to run on 11's. Come 4.2 they will not exist and will not be supported. I suppose if you were masochistic, you might conditionalize code to either use mpx stuff #ifdef pdp11 and otherwise use the 4.2 IPC. But the mapping is not clear.