[openbeos] Re: Kernel status (POSIX)

> >True. The only people who are really worried about posix are
> >those who are porting apps from eunucs.
> 
> Close, but not completely true. 
> There are a number of cases where POSIX is your friend.
> Like doing things with the kernel, where you can't use C++. :-)

Just out of curiousity, why can't you=3F I was under the impression that 
although you can't use exceptions, everything else works fine.

> >My personal opinion was to strap crappy old posix (spelled U*N*I*X) 
> >onto a rocket and launch it into the sun. People seemed to object 
> >though, so rather than have a realy bad port of posix, from 
> > something 
> >slow and spagetti like (linux), I thought it would be good to make 
> >an *unbroken* implementation, that uses the features of BeOS 
> >to maximize throughput.

LOL! I agree.
-Nathan

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