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From: jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] software quality and popularity
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Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 19:26:35 -0400
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On Tue May 22 17:29:25 EDT 2001, cross@math.psu.edu wrote:
> In article <20010522203105.AAA6E19A21@mail.cse.psu.edu> you write:
> >(that may change, of course, once plan 9
> >displaces windows nt and linux as the dominant server 
> >operating system.)  
> 
> You'll have to add Tsync to 9P2000 before that can happen.
> 
> 	- Dan C.
> 
> (Duck!  Run!  Hit the deck!)

 From STAT(5):

 A wstat request can explicitly avoid modifying some proper-
 ties of the file by providing explicit ``don't touch'' val-
 ues in the stat data that is sent: zero-length strings for
 text values and the maximum unsigned value of appropriate
 size for integral values.  As a special case, if all the
 entries in a Twstat message are ``don't touch'' values, the
 server may interpret it as a request to guarantee that the
 contents of the associated file are committed to stable
 storage before the Rwstat message is returned.  (Consider
 the message to mean, ``make the state of the file exactly
 what it claims to be.'')