On Fri, 2008-03-21 at 17:20 -0500, Kirk Wolf wrote:

> I have a different view of Peter Relson's posts - I think that he is only
> trying to explain which parts of control blocks are meant to be interfaces
> and which are not.   This distinction has no analog in modern operating
> systems, where interfaces are expressed *entirely* by APIs and service
> routines, and not by skipping through PSA->ASCB->etc.etc.

I take it then you've not taken a stroll down task_list on a Linux
system. Meandering off from (any) task_struct is remarkably familiar.
Having the code is, of course, the key here.

> In any case, I appreciate Mr. Relson's (and other IBMers) contributions to
> IBM-MAIN, even if I don't always like what they say.

Likewise. My beef is with the corporate dictate.

Shane ...

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