From: Kenny McCormack (gazelle@yin.interaccess.com)
Subject: Re: File * to fd

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
Date: 2004-12-24 10:19:37 PST

In article <41cc401d$0$6214$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>,
Casper H.S. Dik  <Casper.Dik@Sun.COM> wrote:
>kamalp@acm.org (Kamal R. Prasad) writes:
> 
stupid[vbcol=seagreen] 
POSIX[vbcol=seagreen] 
might[vbcol=seagreen] 
>
>Surely there must be some programmer's proverb like "penny wise,
>pound foolish" (cycle savvy, maintenance hazard?)
>
>You should *never* circumvent a standard interface because you
>think it's faster; apart from the fact that performance and intuition
>don't go well together and that people generally optimize the bits
>which are not performance critical, you also increase you maintenance
>and portability issues.

This does nothing to address the fact that POSIX cares a lot about
portability -but not about how thick the wrappers are. Just to let you
know that portability  is less of an issue at the sytem level than at
the application level.

>That is usually the goal.

>Don't want to be out-sourced, do ya?

Can we leave politics out of this plz?

thanks
-kamal

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