From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Message-ID: <20010905212441.26349.qmail@g.bio.cse.psu.edu>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] weird print(2) problems...
In-Reply-To: Message from "Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
   of "Wed, 05 Sep 2001 17:11:10 EDT." <20010905211114.7A030199DD@mail.cse.psu.edu>
From: Scott Schwartz <schwartz@bio.cse.psu.edu>
Date: Wed,  5 Sep 2001 17:24:41 -0400
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| We can dive into heuristics
| ad nauseum, but I think we're just stuck
| with the overload until everyone switches
| to a language with tupled return values
| like Limbo.

If you don't mind changing old code (and I think it's fair to say
that Plan 9 fans are selected for that) you could return -2 for EOF,
or return -1 and check errstr, or have the read library function return
the length via a pointer argument and return +/0/- for ok/eof/err,
or something along those lines.