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Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 11:39:40 -0700
From: "Roman V. Shaposhnik" <rvs@sun.com>
To: 9fans <9fans@9fans.net>
Message-id: <1247942380.5366.23.camel@goose.sun.com>
Subject: [9fans] i/o on a hangup channel asymmetry
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In the "mom, why sky is blue" department, here's a silly question:
is there any good reason that read(2) on a hangup channel returns
an error, while write(2) on a hangup channel terminates an application
(by generating a note, of course, which can be ignored, but still)?

Thanks,
Roman.

P.S. And btw, is there any way to make UNIX (POSIX) behave like Plan9
read(1)? The EOF on a hangup channel is actually misleading, its not
that the channel can be ever resumed...