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Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 04:07:04 -0400
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] changing close() 
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Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 04:07:04 -0400
From: Scott Schwartz <schwartz@bio.cse.psu.edu>
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| 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.