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From: "boyd, rounin" <boyd@insultant.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Rstat needs three size fields?
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Date: Mon,  7 Jul 2003 22:38:28 +0200
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> and when you issued a 2^10 byte read and receive 318 bytes back,
> how would you represent the return count?

that's the problem.  2^16 and 2^32 are no longer large numbers, but
you can't expect the read return to be a power of two.

simple, sufficient protocols are the way to go -- much as i am contrary ...