From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] software quality and popularity
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Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 11:39:14 -0400
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On Wed May 23 11:25:26 EDT 2001, DAGwyn@null.net wrote:
> jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com wrote:
> > 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.'')
> 
> Oh, great, more usurping of data values for in-band
> signalling of exceptional conditions.

Oh, great, more whining.