On Jul 18, 2008, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I look at at this way: a unix-like operating system is the part that > makes everything look like a file and applications that are portable > across them only need an API of creat(), open(), read(), write(), and > ioctl() API = UNIX-like C library? On GNU+Linux, GNU libc, right? Linux per se offers no such APIs. >> Nothing like "many small programs, each doing a single simple task >> very well, that can be combined through pipes and a powerful shell >> programming language" would be part of the UNIX philosophy, because, >> well, these small programs wouldn't be part of UNIX per this narrow >> definition. > That's a good idea under any OS, not particularly unique to unix. Heh. Discarding part of a statement to make it fit others isn't very nice :-) Good ideas are present in any OS, so... whatever conclusion you might want to get to :-) > The c library isn't unique to unix by design. I don't understand what you're trying to communicate here, there are several different possible interpretations. Please expand or use different words? -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} FSFLA Board Member ¡Sé Libre! => http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
