From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: RE: [9fans] Plan 9 (in)security
From: "rob pike" <rob@plan9.bell-labs.com>
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Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 11:00:14 -0400
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> But if the limit in the
> current implementation (0xFFFF -- has anyone heard any new developments
> here) needs to be extended -- maybe this makes the system call more flexible
> for the future? 

The limit he's referring to is for a `subfont', which is a subblock of a whole font,
typically for example the Latin-1 or Greek subblock.  Unless I'm mistaken,
the only place the 16 bit limit comes in is the definition of Rune as ushort,
which is in principle at least easy to fix.

-rob