From: Mateusz Piotrowski <mpp302@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Why does Plan 9 use “snarf” instead of “copy”?
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2016 14:37:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0C660D3C-2E3C-435B-BA8B-0F98001FDDD8@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKzdPgzHeTa6FncWZt1RUjT25kJGXus7qR9s+JPuN=o+ga09LA@mail.gmail.com>
On 12 Sep 2016, at 14:27, Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com> wrote:
> The operation is not to copy but to snarf. It's called snarf because
> snarf is what it does. There is no design document.
Thank you, Rob!
Mateusz
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-12 12:37 UTC|newest]
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2016-09-12 10:19 Mateusz Piotrowski
[not found] ` <CAH+xwdCqV8fA6diS6Q4hOgMoo0daB+HLgoi_Ui=ETE+iPEDrFQ@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <CAH+xwdA8kKRebYPNVZGHpYLBQ3tZSnVtbNZ4JsQo2cxwYS0_bA@mail.gmail.com>
2016-09-12 10:38 ` Robert Raschke
2016-09-12 10:44 ` Alexander Kapshuk
2016-09-12 12:27 ` Rob Pike
2016-09-12 12:37 ` Mateusz Piotrowski [this message]
2016-09-13 2:57 ` Winston Kodogo
2016-09-13 4:25 ` Jules Merit
2016-09-12 17:20 ` Skip Tavakkolian
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