Re:Understanding the working of X11 from the ground up (2017)
by mmrezaie on Sunday September 22, 2019 @05:31AM
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How do you think it should have evolved? I personaly think posix way of filesystem needs to be changed into specialized oject filesystems, but I am not sure what object filesystem for a UNIX OS should look like specially since it needs to be generalized into something all the other sub-systems can benefit from.
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Re:Understanding the working of X11 from the ground up (2017)
by pcr910303 on Sunday September 22, 2019 @07:12AM
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Personally I also preferred the ‘Everything is an object’ from the lisp machines.
However, I also believe that files are an acceptable object format, since if several applications know how to manipulate a file format, it’s basically duck typing.
I believe file systems could have a more formal method to query the file’s format, and has less latency so that applications could use files as an inter communication format.
Re:Understanding the working of X11 from the ground up (2017)
by fortran77 on Sunday September 22, 2019 @10:47AM
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There are some things like audio where it's nice to simply copy an audio file to a /dev/audio to play audio and read from /dev/audio to record audio.
That doesn't preclude having more advanced interfaces, too.