getcwd() and friends.

[Boyd Roberts]

What we really need is /dev/time.  Opening it returns a descriptor refering
to the system time inode.  You can fstat() it and determine the current
time from the modification time.  Its modification time would be updated
by clock().

A host of advantages would follow.  date(1) would be "ls -l /dev/time | cut ..".

This would move us ever closer to a true descriptor based OS...


Boyd Roberts			NEC Information Systems Australia

boyd at necisa.necisa.oz

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