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Signals, pthreads, vintage memory management stuff (sbrk and friends), undefined file system path encoding, octal access control instead of ACLs, file locking,
by blattimwind 8y ago
Signals, pthreads, vintage memory management stuff (sbrk and friends), undefined file system path encoding, octal access control instead of ACLs, file locking, no real support for asynchronous I/O beyond select() for sockets and many, many more.
- tinus_hn 8y agoReally poor how they chose ‘vintage memory stuff’ in the early 70s
- kbenson 8y ago> Really poor how they chose ‘vintage memory stuff’ in the early 70s You can choose to read is as "they chose vintage memory stuff" or as "one of the mistakes is what we might now think of as vintage memory stuff". It's all about context.