Re: Proposal for new syscalls: getrusagex and waitx

[der Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>]

> I guess that depends on your definition of simpler.  Versioning
> struct rusage seems to be as much work and then it only works once.
> With a probib, once it's been once it doesn't need to be done ever
> again.

But it pushes work off into every application that uses it, because
they all have to have some kind of code to handle the case where the
returned proplib doesn't contain the data they want (or contains it in
a way the application doesn't know how to find, which amounts to much
the same thing in practice).

This - and, actually, proplibs in general - are an attempt to do a
late-bound, dynamically-typed paradigm in an early-bound,
statically-typed language; it's no surprise the fit is a poor one.

"If you want Lisp, you know where to find it."

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