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A comment on Posix Abstractions in Modern Operating Systems: The Old, the New, the Missing [pdf].

Re:Posix Abstractions in Modern Operating Systems: The Old, ... by ktRolster on Sunday May 08, 2016 @02:07AM (#11652853)
It shows that we need a better IPC api, and also some primitives for dealing with graphics cards (Linux deals with it through ioctl, for example, which is a hack).
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Re:Posix Abstractions in Modern Operating Systems: The Old, ... by digi_owl on Sunday May 08, 2016 @04:26AM (#11653203)
Frankly everything is a hack at some level or other.
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Re:Posix Abstractions in Modern Operating Systems: The Old, ... by tmptmp on Sunday May 08, 2016 @06:50AM (#11653507)
Then we can say it is a rather poor hack.
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