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From: Scott Schwartz <schwartz@bio.cse.psu.edu>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] changing close()
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 04:07:04 -0400	[thread overview]
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 04:07:04 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050816080704.1012.qmail@g.galapagos.bx.psu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43008555.4010803@lanl.gov>

| Is this a terrible idea? (I'm trying to address the lack of technical 
| discussion mentioned  an earlier note :0)

In my humble opinion, the better solution is to have dial return
a pair of descriptors (and change the rest of the system to have
e.g. /net/tcp/9/data{0,1}), so you can close the one you want.

But maybe it's too late for that, and changing close is the only way.



  reply	other threads:[~2005-08-16  8:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-15 12:06 Ronald G Minnich
2005-08-16  8:07 ` Scott Schwartz [this message]
2005-08-16 19:56   ` Charles Forsyth
2005-08-16 23:08   ` Derek Fawcus
2005-08-16  8:58 ` Charles Forsyth
2005-08-16 17:19   ` Brantley Coile
2005-08-21 20:17 ` Russ Cox
2005-08-23  8:28   ` Ronald G Minnich
2005-08-23 16:19     ` Charles Forsyth
2005-08-23  9:03       ` Ronald G Minnich
2005-08-23 16:54         ` Charles Forsyth
2005-08-27  8:02       ` kokamoto
2005-08-27  8:26         ` kokamoto

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