From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 10:01:47 -0700 From: Roman V Shaposhnik In-reply-to: To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-id: <1248109307.18344.10052.camel@work.SFBay.Sun.COM> References: Subject: Re: [9fans] i/o on a hangup channel asymmetry Topicbox-Message-UUID: 290138e2-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Mon, 2009-07-20 at 10:53 +0100, Charles Forsyth wrote: > >pipe would return -1 (and set a error condition) and the > >applications were paying attention (and I'm pretty sure all > >applications on Plan 9 would do a reasonable thing when > >presented with -1 from a write). > > they only notice when the write occurs. suppose that takes > several minutes of computation. Just to correct the statement of fact: same as true for the note -- it only gets sent when the write occurs. Thus -- there's no difference, really. Thanks, Roman.