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Re:Fiwix: Unix-like kernel for the i386 architecture by dmitrygr on Friday July 05, 2024 @05:20PM (#40886109)
I look forward to the kernel, user space, compilers, and web browser you will author from scratch
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Re:Fiwix: Unix-like kernel for the i386 architecture by kragen on Saturday July 06, 2024 @09:13AM (#40890260)
you're about halfway there yourself, as i recall

it's an appealing project, and i think there's potential to do better than posix, but it's easier to do worse

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Re:Fiwix: Unix-like kernel for the i386 architecture by dmitrygr on Tuesday July 09, 2024 @02:03PM (#40919062)
> it's easier to do worse

Bingo. Personally, i always disliked POSIX and preferred NT's way of doing things. Synchronous IO by default is silly.

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Re:Fiwix: Unix-like kernel for the i386 architecture by kragen on Tuesday July 09, 2024 @10:53PM (#40923305)
blocking i/o makes simple things simpler, but it also makes hard things harder. having only blocking i/o can make hard things much harder. maybe it would make more sense to put blocking i/o in a library instead of the system call interface?
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