From: Martin Neubauer <m.ne@gmx.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] echo -n
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 23:24:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061120222435.GA26512@shodan.homeunix.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8ccc8ba40611201411o35a3f282kf10d4bcf5f4d7bc1@mail.gmail.com>
* Francisco J Ballesteros (nemo@lsub.org) wrote:
> >Changing devpipe is very different from defining that a zero-length write
> >system call gets dropped from the kernel (which it sounds like you
> >are proposing). That would definitely be a mistake.
>
> You mean, it would be a mistake because there are programs that depend on
> it,
> and there is no big reason to change the current behaviour, right?
>
>
> I don??t see why that would be a mistake, and you seem to be pretty sure
> about
> that. I??m just try to see why you are so sure.
> Writing nothing always seemed weird to me.
That reminds of an algebra professor of mine ending the recurring debate
whether 0 is or is not a natural natural number (for that time at least):
``Either I have got money, or I haven't got money. That's completely
natural.''
>
> thanks
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-20 22:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-20 8:40 arisawa
2006-11-20 9:45 ` Martin Neubauer
2006-11-20 10:42 ` lucio
2006-11-20 17:35 ` maht
2006-11-20 12:46 ` Russ Cox
2006-11-20 14:41 ` John Stalker
2006-11-20 14:59 ` Dave Lukes
2006-11-20 14:59 ` Axel Belinfante
2006-11-20 15:34 ` ron minnich
2006-11-20 15:43 ` erik quanstrom
2006-11-20 16:37 ` Joel Salomon
2006-11-20 18:49 ` Russ Cox
2006-11-20 19:16 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2006-11-20 19:57 ` Joel Salomon
2006-11-20 20:18 ` Federico Benavento
2006-11-20 20:38 ` Russ Cox
2006-11-20 21:00 ` Joel Salomon
2006-11-20 21:05 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2006-11-20 21:55 ` Russ Cox
2006-11-20 22:11 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2006-11-20 22:24 ` Martin Neubauer [this message]
2006-11-20 23:14 ` Gorka guardiola
2006-11-20 23:22 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2006-11-20 23:57 ` Gorka guardiola
2006-11-21 3:24 ` lucio
2006-11-20 19:32 ` Joel Salomon
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