Re: [HACKERS] backend/frontend communication

On Wed, 27 May 1998, Brett McCormick wrote:

> the reason i'm writing this mail are twofold, one is: are the
> developers interested in merging my input/output changes into the
> distribution.  this has the benefit of making the io a little more
> coherent, right now it seems sort of patched together, read/write
> mixed with fread/fwrite, functions that do the same thing but take
> different arguments, fread/fwrite in the actual code instead of
> calling an appropriate function.  this seems like a good idea to me.
> we could also define an interface for implementing transport layers,
> so my patch could be an add-on module.

    Go for it...I like the thought of simplifying the code, which this
sounds like it will do.

Marc G. Fournier
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy@hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org