From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 23:24:35 +0100 From: Martin Neubauer To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] echo -n Message-ID: <20061120222435.GA26512@shodan.homeunix.net> References: <8ccc8ba40611201116r89eba04m32cf9d487a02ceb5@mail.gmail.com> <5c2bf4a5c8ff68ef5e1bfd2db024e300@plan9.jp> <8ccc8ba40611201305u114a86fboa765b4dd87a95b4e@mail.gmail.com> <8ccc8ba40611201411o35a3f282kf10d4bcf5f4d7bc1@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <8ccc8ba40611201411o35a3f282kf10d4bcf5f4d7bc1@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Topicbox-Message-UUID: e3663d1c-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 * 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