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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] bidirectional pipes
In-Reply-To: Message from Mike Haertel <mike@ducky.net>
   of "Thu, 02 May 2002 14:35:41 PDT." <200205022135.g42LZfXB014631@ducky.net>
From: Scott Schwartz <schwartz@bio.cse.psu.edu>
Date: Thu,  2 May 2002 18:24:44 -0400
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| I'm curious?  Why does this bother you?  Just let half the connection
| go unused.

I think that having two open fds is nicer than one open fd and some extra
system calls, because it's impossible to get it wrong.  Plan 9 doesn't
have a way to do half-close at all, right?  So what if your server was
"sort" instead of "ssh"?