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From: "boyd, rounin" <boyd@insultant.net>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] using plan 9 libraries on unix
Date: Wed,  3 Dec 2003 03:15:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <03c901c3b943$5630ec20$b9844051@insultant.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1ARCFZ-000PJH-5h@t40.swtch.com>

9term was awful.  what? one ioctl() per char?

now nobody cares, but when it was released those instructions counted.

the ultrix pty interface saved a lotta system calls.



  reply	other threads:[~2003-12-03  2:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-12-02 13:47 arcadi
2003-12-02 13:42 ` mirtchov
2003-12-02 15:15   ` Russ Cox
2003-12-03  2:15     ` boyd, rounin [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-12-02 16:11 Caerwyn B Jones
2003-11-30  1:48 [9fans] A question for Russ Ishwar Rattan
2003-11-30 14:18 ` [9fans] using plan 9 libraries on unix Russ Cox

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