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On Sunday 14 February 2010 16:40:01 Enrico Weigelt wrote: |
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> > Just to bring this back to your original statement of Unix philosophy. |
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> > IPC on modern desktops conforms exactly to the Unix philosophy. |
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> On dbus, everything's a file ? |
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You are either ignorant, or trying to be a jackass. Either way, it's obvious |
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you do not underatand Unix philosophy |
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"Everything is a file" is but one of many engineering concepts underpinning |
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Unix. I really don't have the inclination to delineate them for you, I suggest |
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you Google the topic - it will serve you well in future. |
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Meanwhile, here's the short description of the main principle behind what I |
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said: |
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"A large collection of small programs, each of which does one thing well." |
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The one thing an MUA does well is NOT popup notifications but dealing with |
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mail - retrieving it (or causing it to be retrieved), sending it (or causing |
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it to be sent) and displaying it to be read. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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