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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] u9fs
From: forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk
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Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 07:01:35 +0000
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Inferno's equivalent of fcall(2) has different return values
to distinguish an incomplete message, avoiding the need for
aux/fcall (at least in the common instance).   it isn't better
than a count (given the dearth of common Internet protocols
that can punctuate properly) because it needs to know the
structure of every message (thus for instance a filter can't
skip messages it doesn't understand or need to parse).