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Re:Unix System Call Timeouts by xenadu02 on Monday March 13, 2017 @02:39AM (#13855702)
> You understand that's still offensive and implies I have brain damage, right?

My apologize, I didn't intend that. I mean that some people are used to Unix and use their familiarity as a post-hoc rationalization for some of the poorly designed aspects of it.

To be clear: my position is that several Unix APIs are bad designs. Rather than making excuses for them we should demand better cross-platform APIs.

> It doesn't have to be bespoke, but I agree that the Unix VFS interface isn't appropriate for it.

I don't agree. Network filesystems should be mountable and traversable just like local filesystems, but the OS and libraries should do more to be async and multi-thread aware, as should applications.

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Re:Unix System Call Timeouts by pjmlp on Monday March 13, 2017 @11:12AM (#13858435)
> Rather than making excuses for them we should demand better cross-platform APIs.

We already have them in the form of language runtimes.

POSIX as cross-platform API is mostly relevant to C.

Even C++ is moving beyond POSIX, by providing proper OS abstractions on the standard library.

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