From: "ron minnich" <rminnich@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] read/write offset hack
Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 09:20:08 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <13426df10805300920k2e1d2775of068ab78991f6e7e@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fa0bc3ba-39ed-4143-8f08-ac853ee5aee3@m73g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 1:43 AM, Nyang A. Phra <naphra@gmail.com> wrote:
> Poking around Plan 9 and 9P, I was wondering whether it would be a
> neat hack or some sort of abuse to read and write dynamically served
> files at different offsets to get different semantics, instead of
> reading and writing different files (ctl, clone, etc.) to do that.
it's a step backwards in time to very old ideas. And it's a terrible
idea. Heed your spider sense.
Just consider the QID as your differentiator.
ron
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-30 16:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-30 8:43 Nyang A. Phra
2008-05-30 9:27 ` Charles Forsyth
2008-05-30 9:32 ` Nick LaForge
2008-05-30 9:45 ` Charles Forsyth
2008-05-30 10:10 ` Nick LaForge
2008-05-30 11:09 ` Nyang A. Phra
2008-05-30 11:28 ` Nick LaForge
2008-05-30 10:53 ` roger peppe
2008-05-30 15:01 ` Russ Cox
2008-05-30 16:50 ` Robert William Fuller
2008-05-30 19:04 ` a
2008-05-30 19:22 ` Roman Shaposhnik
2008-05-30 16:20 ` ron minnich [this message]
2008-06-02 8:53 ` Nyang A. Phra
2008-05-30 15:15 erik quanstrom
2008-05-30 15:27 ` roger peppe
2008-05-30 16:09 ` Russ Cox
2008-05-30 15:35 erik quanstrom
2008-05-30 16:12 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
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