> >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 -- Fortune Cookie Says: I fell asleep reading a dull book, and I dreamt that I was reading on, so I woke up from sheer boredom.